Churches of Christ Tasmania Act 1978
SCHEDULE 2SCHEDULE 2
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SCHEDULE 2 SCHEDULE 2
1. To erect or permit to be erected upon all or any pieces of land subject to the trusts declared in this Act or any part of such land a church chapel or other place of religious worship or religious teaching or any other building, erections, and improvements.
2. To permit and suffer any such church chapel or place of religious worship or religious teaching or other buildings, erections, and improvements with the appurtenances to be used, occupied, and enjoyed as a place of religious worship or religious teaching by the members of an affiliated Church of Christ and for public meetings and services held according to the general rules and usages for the time being of the Churches of Christ, Tasmania and for Sunday or other school purposes and for such other purposes as may from time to time be determined by a special meeting.
3. To repair, alter, enlarge, take down, rebuild, or otherwise deal with the buildings, erections, or improvements for the time being standing on any land for the time being subject to the trusts declared in this Act or permit the same to be repaired, altered, enlarged, taken down, rebuilt for otherwise dealt with so as to render the same better adapted for the purposes thereof and to erect or permit the erection of additional buildings, erections, or improvements.
4. To raise by mortgage on any land or property subject to the trusts declared in this Act or by a deposit of the title deeds thereof or in any other manner whatsoever with or without giving security such sum of money as a special meeting may think fit for all or any of the purposes of the trusts declared herein or for paying off any debts or liabilities or for the benefit of any affiliated Church of Christ.
5. To sell and dispose of any land, church, or chapel, place of religious worship, or religious teaching, building, erection, or improvement, or any estate or interest in the same respectively or any hereditaments or premises or any part or parts of the same respectively either by public auction or private contract and together or in parcels and either at one and the same time or at different times for such purposes and on such conditions and subject to such restrictive covenants and in such manner as a special meeting shall think fit or to exchange the same or any part respectively for any other freehold tenure and pay or receive any money (if any be payable or receivable) by way of equality of exchange with power to grant, reserve, and create easements of any nature permitted at law or in equity and to transfer, convey, and assure the land, hereditaments, and premises sold, disposed of, or exchanged to the purchaser or purchasers or as he, she, or they may direct and absolutely discharged from this Act and the trusts hereby declared. The Association shall apply the money to arise from any such sale, disposition, or exchange as aforesaid so far as the same shall extend to the discharge of all encumbrances, liabilities, and responsibilities (whether personal or otherwise) lawfully contracted in respect of the said land, hereditaments, or premises and subject thereto for such purposes of such affiliated Church of Christ as a special meeting may decide.