Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The standards of
religious belief and of ecclesiastical government set forth in the said Scheme
of Union shall be held to be the standards as well of the Presbyterian Church
in Western Australia as of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and the
subordinate standard therein set forth may from time to time be altered in
accordance with the provisions contained in the said Scheme of Union.
(2) Adherence to such
standards, subject to any such alteration as aforesaid, shall be required as
entitling the said Presbyterian Church in Western Australia, and the
congregations and office-bearers thereof respectively, to continued possession
in all time coming of the hereditaments, estates, temporal privileges, and
equitable rights of whatsoever nature, whether such hereditaments, estates,
temporal privileges, and equitable rights have already accrued, or may
hereafter from time to time accrue, to the said Presbyterian Church in Western
Australia, or to any or all of the several congregations and office-bearers
respectively forming the said Presbyterian Church in Western Australia.
(3) Nevertheless, if
any alteration is made in the said subordinate standard, any person, being a
Minister or office-bearer of the said Presbyterian Church in Western Australia
at the time of the making of such alteration, may continue to be a Minister or
office-bearer of such Church, and to retain all his rights and privileges so
long as he adheres to the standards of religious belief and ecclesiastical
government set forth in the Scheme of Union, either without alteration or with
such part of the alteration or alterations so made as he may approve of.
[Section 4 amended by No. 19 of 2010
s. 51.]