3Incorporation of the Baptist Union

3 Incorporation of the Baptist Union

[Section 3 Amended by No. 36 of 1958, s. 5 ]

(1)  [Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 27 of 2006, s. 6, Applied:18 Dec 2006] *[Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 36 of 1958, s. 4 and Sched. 3 ]*All persons who are or who may, in accordance with the constitution for the time being thereof, hereafter become members of the religious body or denomination in Tasmania holding as their general tenets the Union Doctrines, and who now or hereafter constitute the association called "The Baptist Union of Tasmania", shall from henceforth be a body corporate by the name of "The Baptist Union of Tasmania", and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and under that name may exercise all the powers, rights, and privileges possessed at law by bodies corporate, and under the same name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, and take all other proceedings in all courts, civil and criminal.

(2)  *[Section 3 Subsection (2) amended by No. 36 of 1958, s. 4 and Sched. 3 ]*It shall be lawful for the said body corporate (hereinafter referred to as "the Union") to take, purchase, receive, hold, and enjoy real and personal property of any description whatsoever, and either subject to trusts or absolutely; and also to sell, grant, convey, demise, or otherwise dispose of, either absolutely or by way of mortgage or in any other manner which the Council, subject to the by-laws of the Union, shall deem expedient or proper, any of the property real or personal belonging to the Union, and generally to exercise, subject to the provisions of this Act, all powers incident to a body corporate.

(3)  *[Section 3 Subsection (3) amended by No. 36 of 1958, s. 4 and Sched. 3 ]*The Council shall have the custody and use of the common seal of the Union, and a majority of the members of such Council present at any meeting shall have power, subject to the said by-laws, to use or direct the use of such seal for all purposes for which the use of such seal is required.

(4)  *[Section 3 Subsection (4) amended by No. 36 of 1958, s. 4 and Sched. 3 ]*The seal shall only be affixed by virtue of a resolution of the said majority, and in the presence of two members of the Council and the Secretary or the President for the time being of the Union, and the said two members and the Secretary or President shall sign their names to the document to which the seal has been affixed.