Western Australian Consolidated Acts

UNITING CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 24A

24A .         Power to sell, lease or mortgage lands granted by the Crown upon trust

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), the Trust may in respect of any land granted by the Crown and held by the Trust in trust for the Church — 

            (a)         sell and transfer or otherwise assure any of that land to a purchaser, freed and discharged from any trusts to which the land is subject;

            (b)         mortgage, or otherwise encumber, any of that land and for the purposes of that mortgage or encumbrance transfer any of that land, freed and discharged from any trusts to which the land is subject;

            (c)         notwithstanding any trusts to which the land is subject, lease any of that land for any term, with or without right of renewal, subject to any covenants, conditions and agreements as the Trust thinks fit.

        (2)         In respect of any land granted by the Crown without pecuniary consideration — 

            (a)         a transfer or other assurance on sale;

            (b)         a mortgage or other encumbrance; or

            (c)         a lease for a term exceeding 21 years,

                under subsection (1) shall not be valid unless approved, and countersigned, by the Governor.

        [Section 24A inserted by No. 42 of 1991 s. 6.]