1Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1859

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documentsi Version No. 001 Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1859 Act No. 82/1859 Version incorporating amendments as at 19 February 2001 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page

1. Presbyterian bodies when united to be recognized as the Presbyterian Church of Victoria 3
2. Standards of religious belief 4
3. This Act not to affect congregations not joining 5
4. Recited Act 17 Vict. No. 19 repealed 5

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1. General Information 7
2. Table of Amendments 8
3. Explanatory Details 9

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1 Version No. 001 Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1859 Act No. 82/1859 Version incorporating amendments as at 19 February 2001 An Act to amend an Act intituled An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of the Synod of Victoria and to amend the law relating thereto Preamble WHEREAS by an Act of the Lieutenant Governor and Legislative Council of Victoria passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled An Act to regulate the temporal affairs of the Synod of Victoria and to amend the law relating thereto it was enacted that the powers privileges and advantages conferred upon the Synod of Australia in connection with the Established Church of Scotland by certain Acts therein recited should be conferred upon the Synod of Victoria: AND WHEREAS there are now within the colony of Victoria other separate sections or bodies of Presbyterians bearing other designations hitherto but professing and holding almost or wholly the same religious belief and forms of worship and church government viz. "The Free Presbyterian Synod of Victoria" "The United Presbyterian Synod of Victoria" and "The United Presbyterian Synod of Australia": AND WHEREAS the desire has arisen on the part of the said Synod of Victoria and on the part of the aforesaid sections or bodies of Presbyterians to unite and form themselves into one church under and bearing the name of "The Presbyterian Church of Victoria":

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary DocumentsAct No. 82/1859 Presbyterian Synod of Victoria Act 1859 2 AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the hereditaments estates and temporal privileges belonging to each of those several bodies or sections of Presbyterians and to the congregations respectively of which the said sections or bodies of Presbyterians consist should be secured in all time coming to the said Presbyterian Church of Victoria and to the several congregations respectively forming the said bodies or sections of Presbyterians and now uniting to form the said church: AND WHEREAS the said several sections or bodies of Presbyterians respectively within the colony of Victoria have hitherto been in connection with certain other ecclesiastical bodies or judicatories and it is expedient that all doubts should be removed as to any such ecclesiastical body or bodies or the judicatories of the same having in any way any power to interfere with the said hereditaments estates or temporal privileges pertaining to the said sections or bodies of Presbyterians now to be united into one church or to any of the congregations forming hitherto a part of any of the said sections or bodies of Presbyterians in Victoria: AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the said recited Act should be so amended that it may apply to the said Presbyterian Church of Victoria: BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows that is to say: Preamble