Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1970 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Presbyterian Church of Australia Act 1970 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table ^{1a, 5}. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Presbyterian Church of Australia Act 1970	91 of 1970	30 Nov 1970	Act other than s. 7: 30 Nov 1970; s. 7 not yet in operation 1a
Presbyterian Church of Australia Act Amendment Act 1972	2 of 1972	8 May 1972	8 May 1972
Reprint of the Presbyterian Church of Australia Act 1970 as at 25 Oct 2002 (includes amendments listed above)

Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 4

19 of 2010

28 Jun 2010

11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)

^1a On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Presbyterian Church of Australia Act 1970 s. 7 4	91 of 1970	30 Nov 1970	Notice to be published (see s. 7(2))

² As at the date of this compilation a notice under s. 2(1)(c) had not been published in the Gazette.

³ Notice under s. 4(1)(b) see Gazette 3 Dec 1971 p. 5009.

⁴ As at the date of this compilation the Presbyterian Church of Australia Act 1970 s. 7 had not come into operation (see note 2). It reads as follows:

“
7. Presbyterian Church Act 1908 amended

(1) The Presbyterian Church Act 1908 is amended as follows:

(a) by adding after the section number “3.” the subsection designation “(1)”;

(b) by substituting for the definition “Church” in section 3 the following definition —
“
Church, the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia, the said Church, the Church mean that part of the Presbyterian Church of Australia that is within the State.  ;

”;

(c) by substituting for the definition “General Assembly” in section 3 the following definition —
“
The Synod means the Synod of Western Australia of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, convened in accordance with the rules, practice and uses of the said Church.  ;

”;

(d) by substituting for the words “General Assembly” in line two of the definition “Moderator” in section 3 the word “Synod”;

(e) by substituting for the words “said Church” in line three of the definition “Presbytery” in section 3 the words “Presbyterian Church of Australia”;

(f) by substituting for the definition “Minister” in section 3 the following definition —
“
Minister means any person recognised as a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Australia by a Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia and who is a member of that Presbytery.  ;

”;

(g) by adding after the definition “Committee of Management” a subsection as follows —
“

(2) After the coming into operation of the Presbyterian Church of Australia Act 1970, a reference in this Act to the “General Assembly” except in the definition “Presbytery” and in section 20 of this Act shall be read and construed as a reference to “The Synod” but so that the Commissioners holding office at the time this subsection comes into operation shall, subject to this Act, continue to hold office.  ;

”;

(h) by substituting for the passage “The Settled Land Act of 1892” in lines 22 and 23 of section 4 the passage “the Trustees Act 1962”; and

(i) by substituting for the figures “1901” in line 10 of section 20 the figures “1970”.

(2) This section shall come into operation on the date of the publication in the Gazette of the notice referred to in section 2 of this Act.

”.

⁵ Other relevant Acts are:

Presbyterian Church of Australia Act 1901;

Presbyterian Church Act 1908;

Presbyterian Church Act Amendment Act 1919;

Presbyterian Church Act Amendment Act 1924.