This Act may be cited as the Anglican Trust for Women and Children Amendment Act 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Act heretofore cited as the Anglican Children's Trust Act 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(1) The principal Act may hereafter be cited as the Anglican Trust for Women and Children Act 1962 and the Anglican Children's Trust Amendment Act 1968 may hereafter be cited as the Anglican Trust for Women and Children Amendment Act 1968.

(2) The principal Act and The Anglican Children's Trust Amendment Act 1968 are hereby amended by omitting the words “Anglican Children's Trust” wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “Anglican Trust for Women and Children”.

(3) All references to The Anglican Children's Trust Act 1962, The Anglican Children's Trust Amendment Act 1968, or the Anglican Children's Trust in any other enactment or in any document whatsoever shall hereafter, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as references to The Anglican Trust for Women and Children Act 1962, The Anglican Trust for Women and Children Amendment Act 1968, and to the Anglican Trust for Women and Children, respectively.

(4) Section 2 of the Anglican Children's Trust Amendment Act 1968 is hereby consequentially repealed.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(1) The St Mary's Homes Trust Board is hereby dissolved.

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act or any rule of law, but subject to subsection (3) of this section and to section 9 of this Act, all real and personal property whatsoever (including any equitable or similar interests and the benefit of any contracts and all rights and powers pertaining to any such interests or contracts) belonging to the St Mary's Homes Trust Board or belonging to and held in trust by the General Trust Board and utilised for the purposes of the work conducted by the St Mary's Homes Trust Board are hereby vested in the Anglican Trust for Women and Children, subject to all liabilities, charges, and obligations affecting the same; and all debts and liabilities of the said St Mary's Homes Trust Board existing on the passing of this Act shall be and become debts and liabilities of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children.

(3) The Anglican Trust for Women and Children may exercise in relation to any property accruing to or vested in it under and by virtue of this Act, without any limitation as to the use thereof imposed by the said deed of conveyance No 94928 or by any rules or regulations made thereunder, all or any of the powers and authorities set forth or referred to in the principal Act, The Anglican Trust for Women and Children Amendment Act 1968, or this Act, as if such property had at all times been the property of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children free of the said trust as to the use thereof.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, the objects of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children shall include and be deemed always to have included provision by direct or indirect assistance for the care, benefit, maintenance, and general welfare of girls or women in need of care or assistance (whether mothers or pregnant women or not and whether infants or of full age) and of their families.

Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1) of Part One of the Second Part of the Schedule to the principal Act, the present members of the St. Mary's Homes Trust Board shall, if they desire and subject to paragraph (3) of that Part, be and become members of the Board of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children in addition to the membership envisaged in the said Second Part of the said Schedule, but subject otherwise to all the provisions of the Second Part of the said Schedule.

All acts purporting to be those of the St Mary's Homes Trust Board and done in bona fide exercise of the powers of such Board, and all acts bona fide done by the General Trust Board in and relating to the operations hitherto conducted by the St. Mary's Homes Trust Board, shall be deemed to have been duly and properly done and effected and to have been within the powers of such Boards, and no such act shall be open to challenge by any person whomsoever.

Any bequest, devise, legacy, or gift which may on or after the commencement of this Act be given or made to or held in trust for or intended for or for the purposes of the St Mary's Homes Trust Board shall, notwithstanding the dissolution of such Board by this Act, vest in and be applied for the purposes of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children subject to any limitation imposed by any specific trust affecting the same, and any receipt or acquittance given by the said Trust shall be a valid and effectual discharge in relation to such bequest, devise, legacy, or gift.

Notwithstanding anything in section 4 of this Act, the land described in the Schedule to this Act shall remain vested in the General Trust Board, and any funds or assets derived from the sale thereof or the reinvestment from time to time of such funds or assets shall be the property of such Board and after deduction therefrom of a due proportion of the administration expenses of the General Trust Board to be determined from time to time by such Board, such part or parts of such funds or assets and the net income derived from such land, funds, or assets as such Board in its discretion may from time to time determine shall be allocated and applied, with the prior approval of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Auckland, for work specifically among women in distress or delinquent or vagrant women, whether or not they are pregnant women.

The trustee of the will of James Murphy, late of Otahuhu, deceased, is hereby required, authorised, and empowered to hold the property referred to in clause 7 of the said will or any property or asset obtained in substitution for or in consequence of realisation of the said property for and on behalf of the Anglican Trust for Women and Children, and to make payments to the said trust pursuant to the said clause of the said will for the purposes and benefit of the St Mary's Home at Otahuhu, and such payments shall be deemed to be full compliance with the said trust.

Section 9(g) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the “word mortgage”, the words “(whether contributory or otherwise)”.

The Anglican Trust for Women and Children is hereby authorised from time to time in its discretion to establish and conduct or discontinue day care centres.

The Anglican Trust for Women and Children is hereby authorised to undertake the care and protection of children who are at risk of injury (whether mental or physical) from their parents or guardians.

This Act is hereby declared to be a private Act.