1Freemasons' Property Act 1956

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Freemasons’ Property Act 1956

Western Australia

Freemasons’ Property Act 1956

Contents

1. Short title 1

2. Terms used 1

3. Adoption of this Act by Lodges 2

Notes

Compilation table 5

Defined terms

Western Australia

Freemasons’ Property Act 1956

An Act to enable the trustees of certain respective bodies of Freemasons to acquire, hold, dispose of, and deal with, property on behalf of the respective bodies.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Freemasons’ Property Act 1956 1.

2. Terms used

In this Act unless the context requires otherwise —

Constituent Lodge means a Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons, constituted, whether before or after the coming into operation of this Act, under the authority of, and owing allegiance to, Grand Lodge;

Grand Lodge means the body known as The Grand Lodge of Western Australia of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons;

Lodge means Grand Lodge, or, as the case requires, a Constituent Lodge;

personal property means property other than real property;

property means real and personal property of any kind;

real property means land and estates in land;

registration authority means an authority authorised by law to record transactions affecting, or relating to, property;

Trustee means a person appointed to, and occupying at any material time, the office of Trustee of a Lodge, in accordance with the constitution of the Lodge.

3. Adoption of this Act by Lodges

(1) Where a Lodge passes, in accordance with the constitution of the Lodge, a resolution adopting this Act —

(a) the Trustees of the Lodge are, by force of the passing of the resolution, and without the necessity of any other instrument or formality of incorporation, constituted a body corporate —

(i) by such corporate name as is specified in the resolution; and

(ii) with perpetual succession; and

(iii) with a common seal in such form, and to be kept in such custody, as is specified in the resolution; and

(iv) with power, in the corporate name, to acquire, hold, dispose of, and otherwise deal with the property, and any estate or interest in the property, of the Lodge, whether by transfer, conveyance, lease, letting, license, mortgage, assignment, bailment, pledge, bill of sale, or otherwise howsoever, and to sue and be sued, settle or compromise claims and disputes, and enter into submissions to arbitration, in respect of the property; and