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Name of Act
1 Name of Act
1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act 1902.
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New South Wales act
The Act repeals the 1862 law and bars payment of stipends or allowances from public funds to ministers of religion, while preserving payments for ministers already receiving public stipends at enactment (so long as they continue officiating in NSW) and for chaplains of gaols or penal establishments. It forces government payers to stop new public funding for ordinary ministry, shifts costs to private actors, and creates administrative transition and definition challenges for implementing agencies.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act 1902.
1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act 1902.
3 Grants for public worship prohibited
No stipend or allowance whatever shall be paid out of public moneys to any minister of religion:
Provided that:
(a) every minister of religion who at the passing of this Act is in receipt of any yearly stipend or allowance paid out of any public fund or moneys shall, so long as he or she officiates as such minister under lawful authority in New South Wales, continue to receive such stipend or allowance,
(b) nothing herein shall prejudice the claim of any minister of religion to receive a stipend as chaplain of a gaol or other penal establishment.
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1 Name of Act
This Act may be cited as the Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act 1902.
2 Repeal
The Grants for Public Worship Prohibition Act of 1862 is hereby repealed.
3 Grants for public worship prohibited
No stipend or allowance whatever shall be paid out of public moneys to any minister of religion:
Provided that:
(a) every minister of religion who at the passing of this Act is in receipt of any yearly stipend or allowance paid out of any public fund or moneys shall, so long as he or she officiates as such minister under lawful authority in New South Wales, continue to receive such stipend or allowance,
(b) nothing herein shall prejudice the claim of any minister of religion to receive a stipend as chaplain of a gaol or other penal establishment.