Presbyterian Church Act 1896
17Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland in Tasmania may meet for special purpose
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17 Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland in Tasmania may meet for special purpose
*[Section 17 Amended by No. 36 of 1958, s. 5 ]*It shall be lawful for the members of the Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland in Tasmania as the same was constituted at the date of the union of that Church with the Presbyterian Church of Tasmania, or may hereafter be constituted in accordance with the laws and usages of the Free Church of Scotland in Tasmania to meet as such Presbytery for the purpose of administering any real or personal property which the said Presbytery was by the resolutions which were adopted by the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Tasmania and the said Presbytery in Conference, as mentioned in section fifteen , authorized to administer until the dissolution of the said Presbytery, and to convey or transfer all such real and personal property, or authorize and cause the same to be conveyed and transferred, in such proportions as the said Presbytery shall see fit, to the respective trustees of the several congregations previously constituting the Free Church of Scotland in Tasmania, and thereafter to dissolve itself as provided in the said resolutions.