• Preamble

  WHEREAS the United Methodist Free Churches of Australia and New Zealand, the Bible Christian Churches of Australia and New Zealand, and the Primitive Methodist Church of Australia have entered into an organic union with the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church (including therein the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand); and it has been agreed that the name of such Church shall be changed to “The Methodist Church of Australasia”: And whereas it is expedient to grant statutory sanction to the change of name of the New Zealand branch of the said united Church:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—