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Salvation Army Property Trust Act 1934
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Republication No 3
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The republished law
This is a republication of the Salvation Army Property Trust Act 1934 (including any
amendment made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 (Editorial changes)) as in force on 1
March 2012. It also includes any commencement, amendment, repeal or expiry affecting this
republished law to 1 March 2012.
The legislation history and amendment history of the republished law are set out in endnotes 3
and 4.
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Contents
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Preamble 2
1 Name of Act 9
2 Definitions for Act 9
3 Vesting of property in Trustees 9
4 Powers of Trustees 10
5 Trust property—how held 11
6 Power to mortgage 11
7 Power to sell 11
8 Receipts for mortgage and purchase moneys etc 12
9 Proceeds of sale of land held for the Social Work 12
10 Evidence of resolutions 12
11 Construction of wills etc 13
12 Vesting in trustees of property given or devised etc for benefit of The
Salvation Army 13
13 Preservation of rights of claimants 14
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14 Vesting of rights of the General in the Trustees 15
Endnotes
1 About the endnotes 16
2 Abbreviation key 16
3 Legislation history 17
4 Amendment history 19
5 Earlier republications 19
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Salvation Army Property Trust Act 1934
An Act to provide for the temporal affairs of The Salvation Army in the
Australian Capital Territory
Preamble
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Preamble
Whereas by a Deed Poll (the Deed of Constitution) dated 7 August
1878, and under the hand and seal of William Booth and afterwards
enrolled in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice on 13
August 1878, the origin and doctrines of the Christian Mission
therein referred to were recited and stated and it was by the said
Deed Poll amongst other things provided that the said Christian
Mission was and should always be thereafter under the oversight,
direction and control of some one person who should be the General
Superintendent thereof whose duty it should be to determine and
enforce the discipline and laws and superintend the operations of the
said Christian Mission and to conserve the same to and for the
objects and purposes for which it was first originated and that the
said General Superintendent should have the powers therein
mentioned that the said William Booth should continue to be for the
term of his natural life the General Superintendent of the said
Christian Mission unless he should resign such office that the said
William Booth and other General Superintendent who should
succeed him should have power to appoint his successor to the
office of General Superintendent and all the rights powers and
authorities should vest in the person so appointed upon the decease
of the said William Booth or other General Superintendent
appointing him or at such other period as might be named in the
document appointing him and that it should be the duty of every
General Superintendent to make in writing as soon as conveniently
might be after his appointment a statement as to his successor and as
to the means which were to be taken for the appointment of the
successor on the decease of the General Superintendent or upon his
ceasing to perform the duties of the office such statement to be
signed by the General Superintendent and delivered under seal to
the Solicitor for the time being of the said Christian Mission but
such statement might be altered at will by the General
Superintendent at any time during his continuance in office pending
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a new statement being signed by him and delivered as before
mentioned to such Solicitor as aforesaid:
And whereas by the said recited Deed Poll it was provided that the
General Superintendent should have power to expend on behalf of
the Christian Mission all moneys contributed for the general
purposes of the said Christian Mission or for any of the special
objects of its operations but he should annually publish a balance
sheet duly audited of all such receipts and expenditure and that the
General Superintendent should have power to acquire by gift
purchase or otherwise any hall or meeting house school room vestry
land building and appurtenances and any seats fittings furniture or
other property whatsoever which might in his judgment be required
for the purposes of the said Christian Mission and to build upon
such land or alter or pull down any such buildings and to hire on
lease or otherwise any land or buildings and to lend, give away and
sell or otherwise dispose of any such properties, lands or buildings
as he might deem necessary in the interests of the said Christian
Mission, wherein all trustees should render him every assistance and
that he might in all such cases as he should deem it expedient so to
do nominate trustees or a trustee of any part or parts thereof
respectively of any such property and erect the conveyance and
transfer thereof to such trustees or trustee with power for the
General Superintendent to declare the trusts thereof and from time
to time if it should seem expedient to him so to do to revoke any
such trusts or the appointment of any such trustees or trustee and
pending such revocation the same property should be conveyed or
transferred to such persons or person upon such trusts as he might
direct but only for the benefit of the said Christian Mission:
And whereas by a further Deed Poll under the hand of the said
William Booth bearing date 26 July 1904, and enrolled in the
Supreme Court of Judicature, England on 27 July 1904, it was
recited that on or about 1 January 1879, the name of the said
religious society or organization was changed from ‘The Christian
Mission’ to ‘The Salvation Army’ as appears by Memorandum
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under the hand of the said William Booth dated 24 June 1880, and
endorsed on the said recited Deed Poll of 7 August 1878, and that
the said society or organization had since been and was then known
as it now is as The Salvation Army and that the title of the ‘General
Superintendent’ thereof had been altered and shortened into that of
‘General’ and that the said William Booth was then known and
designated and it was expected that every successor of his would be
thereafter known and designated as the ‘General’ of The Salvation
Army:
And whereas it was also recited by the lastly herein recited Deed
Poll of 26 July 1904, that in order to minimise the possibility of
doubt, dispute or litigation it was considered desirable to provide
more fully and specifically than was done by the Deed of
Constitution for the events in which the General for the time being
should cease to perform the duties of his office and also for the
nomination and appointment of a successor to the General for the
time being on his dying or ceasing to perform the duties of office
and that the said William Booth had accordingly determined to
execute the said recited Deed Poll of 26 July 1904:
And whereas the said Deed Poll now in recital sets forth more fully
and effectually such events and makes provision inter alia that every
General for the time being of The Salvation Army should be deemed
to cease to perform the duties of his office within the meaning of
clause 6 of the said Deed of Constitution and to vacate such office
upon the happening of any of the events therein referred to, that is to
say, if inter alia the Commissioners of The Salvation Army or a
majority of such Commissioners amounting to at least 4 in 5 should
declare in writing under their hands that they are satisfied that the
General is inter alia permanently incapacitated by mental or physical
infirmity from the adequate performance of the duties of his office
or if a resolution adjudicating the General unfit for office and
removing him therefrom should be passed by a majority of not less
than three-fourths of the members present and voting at a meeting of
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the High Council of The Salvation Army as thereinafter provided
for:
And whereas by a Deed Poll under the hand and seal of William
Bramwell Booth bearing date 1 June 1920, it was recited that the
said William Booth had died on 20 August 1912, having by Deed
Poll under his hand and seal dated 21 August 1890, in exercise of
the power in that behalf vested in him by the said Deed of
Constitution as aforesaid appointed the said William Bramwell
Booth to be his successor in the office of General of The Salvation
Army and that the said William Bramwell Booth had by Deed Poll
under his hand and seal dated 23 August 1912, duly accepted the
said office:
And whereas it was recited by the said recited Deed Poll of 1 June
1920, that in connection with and as the outcome of the work
teaching and experience of The Salvation Army in the United
Kingdom and in Australia and other countries of the world the said
William Booth and the said William Bramwell Booth had evolved
and promulgated various operations for the social temporal and
moral welfare of the poorer and more needy classes of society and
all persons who are destitute feeble-minded or vicious or suffering
from injuries or sickness or ill health or orphans or for children
needing care in orphanages or reformatories and for other charitable
purposes which operations are generally known and described as the
Social Work of The Salvation Army and which in relation to the
Commonwealth of Australia (the Commonwealth) are sometimes
referred to as the Social Work and that in connection with the
carrying out of the Social Work in the Commonwealth the said
William Booth and the said William Bramwell Booth as his
successor in office had acquired certain real and personal property
particularised in the schedule thereto and other real and personal
property would thereafter be acquired for the purposes of the Social
Work and that it was thought desirable that the same respectively
should be kept distinct from the other or proper real and personal
property of The Salvation Army and be used and devoted
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exclusively in and to the Social Work in and connected with the
Commonwealth and that the Social Work should be confined and
regulated and the trusts of the said real and personal property
already acquired and thereafter to be acquired for or in connection
therewith declared as thereinafter appearing:
And whereas by the said recited Deed Poll of 1 June 1920, the said
William Bramwell Booth declared that the real and personal
property particularised in the said schedule and all property, real and
personal, which might thereafter be acquired by gift grant purchase
or in any manner whatsoever for the purposes of the Social Work in
or in connection with the Commonwealth and all real and personal
property for the time being representing the same or any part thereof
respectively and all which are sometimes thereafter collectively
referred to as the trust property should at all times thereafter be held
upon trust to use and apply the same and the income thereof for the
social, temporal and moral welfare and the improvement of the
poorer and more needy classes of society and all persons who were
destitute or vicious or feeble-minded or suffering from injuries or
sickness or ill health or orphans or for children needing care in
orphanages or reformatories in the Commonwealth and for other
charitable purposes in connection with the Commonwealth in such
ways and by such means as the said William Bramwell Booth or
other the Director as thereinafter defined for the time being of the
Social Work should at any time or from time to time think fit subject
nevertheless to the provisoes therein contained:
And whereas by the said Deed Poll now in recital it was provided
that the said Social Work should at all times thereafter be under the
oversight, direction and control of the person who should for the
time being be General of The Salvation Army and he should be
called in relation to the Social Work the Director of the Social Work
(the said Director) and that it should be his duty to determine and
enforce the laws and to superintend the operations of the Social
Work and to conserve the same and the trust property for the
purpose of the trusts thereby declared:
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And whereas it was provided that for the purpose of identifying or
earmarking the trust property and the income thereof and of keeping
the same distinct from all property of The Salvation Army full
accounts of all moneys contributed, collected or received for the
Social Work and of the application thereof should be kept in such
manner as to keep the same always distinct and separate from the
property of The Salvation Army and that all conveyances, leases,
transfers, assignments and assurances made to the Director for the
time being for the purposes of the Social Work should be expressed
to be made to him as such Director and should thereupon become
subject to the trusts of the presents now in recital and that whenever
any property real or personal required for the purposes of the Social
Work should be conveyed, leased, assigned, transferred or assured
to any trustees or trustee other than the Director for the time being
such trustees or trustee should in each case execute a sufficient
declaration of trust so as in every case to enable the property so
conveyed, leased, assigned, transferred or assured to be sufficiently
identified or earmarked as being property devoted to the purposes of
the Social Work:
And whereas the said recited Deed Poll of 1 June 1920, set forth the
powers which the Director should have over and on and concerning
the said trust property:
And whereas at a duly convened meeting of the High Council of
The Salvation Army held at Sunbury in the United Kingdom on 13
February 1929, the High Council of The Salvation Army referred to
in the said recited Deed Poll of 26 July 1904, duly and in
accordance with the said Deed Poll adjudicated the said William
Bramwell Booth unfit for office and removed him therefrom and by
way of record declared that the said adjudication was based upon the
state of health of the said William Bramwell Booth and the said
High Council in pursuance of the power vested in it by the said
Deed Poll of 26 July 1904, elected Edward John Higgins, a
Commissioner of The Salvation Army, as successor in the office of
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General of The Salvation Army to the said William Bramwell
Booth:
And whereas by Deed Poll under his hand and seal dated 13
February 1929, the said Edward John Higgins duly accepted the said
office upon and subject to the terms of the said recited Deeds Poll
dated 7 August 1878, and the 26 July 1904, respectively:
And whereas the said William Bramwell Booth died on 16 June
1929:
And whereas it is expedient to provide that the whole of the
property real and personal of The Salvation Army in the Territory
which was at the time of his death held and now stands in the name
of the said William Bramwell Booth upon the trusts of the
hereinbefore recited Deeds Poll of 7 August 1878, and 26 July 1904,
and the 1 June 1920, respectively, and also that all other property
real and personal of or to which The Salvation Army in the Territory
is entitled held by and standing in the name of the said William
Bramwell Booth at the time of his death or now standing in the
name or names of any other person or persons and which the
General for the time being of The Salvation Army as such General
and as Director of the said Social Work of The Salvation Army
respectively is entitled to have vested in him upon the trusts of the
said recited Deeds Poll according to the nature of the same shall vest
in The Salvation Army (New South Wales) Property Trust
incorporated under the Salvation Army (New South Wales) Property
Trust Act 1929 (NSW) with the powers and authorities in this Act
set forth:
Be it therefore ordained by the Governor-General in and over the
Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal
Executive Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Seat
of Government Acceptance Act 1909 (Cwlth) and the Seat of
Government (Administration) Act 1910–1930 (Cwlth), as follows:
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1 Name of Act
This Act is the Salvation Army Property Trust Act 1934.
2 Definitions for Act
In this Act:
Note A definition applies except so far as the contrary intention appears (see
Legislation Act 2001, s 155).
Deeds Poll means the Deed of Constitution, the Deed Poll under the
hand of William Booth bearing date 26 July 1904, and the Deed Poll
under the hand and seal of William Bramwell Booth bearing date
1 June 1920.
General or The General means the General of The Salvation Army
under its Constitution, or his attorney for the time being in the State
of New South Wales duly authorised in that behalf, or such other
person as for the time being has vested in him under that
Constitution general control and authority over the property in
England of The Salvation Army, or the attorney for the time being
in the State of New South Wales of that person duly authorised in
that behalf.
the Trust or the Trustees means The Salvation Army (New South
Wales) Property Trust, constituted under the Salvation Army (New
South Wales) Property Trust Act 1929 (NSW), and any reference to
a majority of the Trustees shall be read as a reference to a majority
of the persons for the time being constituting the Trust.
3 Vesting of property in Trustees
All lands, tenements, and hereditaments, including chattels real
situate in the ACT, together with all rights, easements, and
appurtenances relating thereto and all personal property which were
at the time of his death held by and now stand in the name of
William Bramwell Booth, as General of The Salvation Army or
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Director of the Social Work of The Salvation Army respectively,
upon the trusts of the Deeds Poll, and all other lands, tenements, and
hereditaments whatsoever, including chattels real situate in the
Territory, which at the commencement of this Act stand in the name
of William Bramwell Booth or in the name or names of any other
person or persons in trust for The Salvation Army in the ACT, or for
any of its funds or any auxiliary or department of its work or any
corps or institution of The Salvation Army in the ACT, or to which
The Salvation Army in the ACT is otherwise entitled, save and
except any property held by The Salvation Army Auxiliary
Company of Australia Proprietary Limited, shall without any
conveyance or transfer vest in the Trustees upon the trusts and with
the powers, authorities, and discretions and subject to the terms,
provisions, and conditions of this Act and the Deeds Poll, according
to the particular trusts in each case upon which the same shall be
held at the commencement of this Act, but subject and without
prejudice to any special trusts (if any) upon which the same may be
held, and subject also to any reservation, mortgage, charge,
encumbrance, lien, or lease affecting the same respectively, and
subject and without prejudice to any resulting trust or any trust of
any such lands, tenements, or hereditaments in favour of the donor
or any person or corporation other than The Salvation Army, but
upon and subject to no other trusts or provisions whatsoever.
4 Powers of Trustees
The Trustees may exercise all the powers relating to the lands,
tenements, and hereditaments and personal property hereby vested
in them, and in respect of all lands, tenements, and hereditaments
and personal property which may after the commencement of this
Act be acquired by them or which may become vested in them
under this Act which are now exercisable by the General of The
Salvation Army and the Director of the Social Work of The
Salvation Army for the time being respectively under the Deeds
Poll, according as they shall and may hold the same upon one or the
other of the trusts of the Deeds Poll, and may exercise such powers
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and all or any of the powers by this Act conferred upon them,
notwithstanding there shall be for the time being any vacancy in the
office of General of The Salvation Army or the office of Director of
the Social Work of The Salvation Army.
5 Trust property—how held
All property held by the Trustees shall, so far as the same is not
subject to any express trust, be held and dealt with by them in
accordance with and subject to the powers and provisions of the
Deeds Poll, according to the trusts upon which the property is held,
and no person dealing with the Trustees shall be bound to inquire
into the propriety or necessity of any such dealing.
6 Power to mortgage
The Trustees may, for the purpose of securing such sums of money
as they deem requisite or necessary for the purposes of The
Salvation Army or the Social Work of The Salvation Army,
mortgage to any person any land or interest in land vested in the
Trustees:
Provided nevertheless that any moneys raised on any land or interest
in land which shall for the time being be held upon trust for the
Social Work of The Salvation Army shall only be used for the
purposes of the Social Work of The Salvation Army.
7 Power to sell
The Trustees may sell by public auction or private contract as they
deem expedient, at such price as can be reasonably obtained for the
same, any real and personal estate vested in them and when sold
convey the same or any part thereof, and thereupon the same shall
vest in the purchasers, their heirs, executors, administrators, or
assigns according to the estate and interest of the Trustees therein
absolutely freed and discharged from the trusts affecting the same.
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8 Receipts for mortgage and purchase moneys etc
The receipt in writing of a majority of the Trustees or of any person
thereto authorised by such majority in writing to receive the same
for the mortgage moneys raised on any property mortgage by the
Trustees, or for the purchase money of any property sold under this
Act, or for any moneys payable to them when exercising any of the
powers by this Act conferred upon them, or when exercising any of
the powers for the time being vested in the General or the Director
of the Social Work, as the case may be, under and by virtue of the
Deeds Poll, shall exonerate the mortgagee and the purchaser and all
other persons for the time being paying such moneys to the
Trustees, or the person authorised to receive the moneys from seeing
to the application of the same, and from all liability as to the
misapplication or non-application thereof and from inquiring into
the propriety or necessity of any mortgage or sale, lease, or other
dealing whatsoever.
9 Proceeds of sale of land held for the Social Work
The proceeds of the sale of any lands held for the purpose of the
Social Work shall be devoted to the purposes of the Social Work,
and the Trustees may for such purposes acquire therewith other
lands and buildings for the purposes of such Work.
10 Evidence of resolutions
A certificate purporting to be signed by the attorney for the time
being of the General, of the appointment of a secretary or other
officer shall be prima facie evidence, and, in favour of the Crown
and the Registrar-General and every person who deals for value
with the Trustees, conclusive evidence, of his or their due
appointment, and a certificate signed by the secretary for the time
being of the Trust as to who are the persons for the time being
constituting the Trust, and a certificate of the secretary certifying to
any resolution of the Trustees shall be prima facie evidence, and, in
favour of the Crown and the registrar-general and every person who
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deals for value with the Trustees, conclusive evidence, as to who are
the Trustees for the time being, and of any such resolution.
11 Construction of wills etc
Whenever by any will, deed, or other instrument any property, real
or personal, has been or is devised, bequeathed, given, granted,
released, conveyed, or appointed or has been or is declared or
directed to be held upon trust to or for the benefit of The Salvation
Army or of any fund, institution, branch, or corps thereof or is
recoverable by or payable to The Salvation Army or by or to any
fund, institution, branch, or corps thereof or be receivable by or
payable to any officer thereof for the benefit of The Salvation Army
or any of its funds, institutions, branches, or corps, or for its Social
Work the will, deed, or instrument shall be construed and operate
and take effect as though the Trustees were named therein, and the
acknowledgment or receipt of the Trustees or a majority of them or
of any person thereto authorised in writing by the Trustees, or a
majority of them, for any such gift shall be a sufficient discharge to
the person liable to deliver or transfer any such money or property
under the will, deed, or instrument, and all property, real or
personal, so devised, bequeathed, given, granted, released,
conveyed, or appointed, or declared or directed to be held upon trust
shall, subject to the trusts of the will, deed, or other instrument, and
subject to any direction to the contrary therein contained so far as
the same are capable of taking effect, be under the direction and
control of the Trustees, and they may call for the transfer,
conveyance, or delivery thereof.
12 Vesting in trustees of property given or devised etc for
benefit of The Salvation Army
(1) Whenever by any will, deed, or other instrument, or by any gift or
disposition of property made before but not taking effect until after
the commencement of this Act, or by any will or other instrument or
by any gift or other disposition of property made after the
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commencement of this Act any real or personal property has been or
is devised, bequeathed, or given to or for the benefit of The
Salvation Army or to or for the benefit of any fund, corps,
institution, branch, or auxiliary thereof, other than real or personal
property devised, bequeathed or given to specific trustees upon trust
for The Salvation Army or for any such fund, corps, institution,
branch, or auxiliary thereof, all such real and personal property shall
vest in the Trustees.
(2) The Trustees shall hold any such real and personal property upon
the trusts (if any) declared in respect thereof, and if no such trusts
have been declared shall hold and deal with such real and personal
property and the proceeds thereof in trust for The Salvation Army
for such purposes and in such manner as they deem expedient, and
may convey, transfer, or deliver any such real or personal property
to such person and upon such trusts as they think fit, and the
Trustees and any person to whom any such real or personal property
is so conveyed, transferred, or delivered may sell, lease, mortgage,
or otherwise deal with any such real or personal property:
Provided that the receipt in writing of the Trustees or a majority of
them or of any person thereto authorised in writing by the Trustees
or a majority of them of any moneys receivable by them in the
exercise of those powers shall exonerate the person paying the same
to them from seeing to the application thereof and all liability as to
the misapplication or non-application thereof, and no person shall be
bound to inquire into the validity of any such sale, conveyance,
lease, or mortgage.
13 Preservation of rights of claimants
Nothing in this Act contained or that may be done under this Act
shall be deemed prejudicially to affect or to deprive any person of
any right whatsoever which he now has arising out of contract or
tort, and any such right which may at the commencement of this Act
have been enforceable against the General or his predecessor in the
office of General of The Salvation Army and in respect of which
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right the property by this Act vested in the Trustees was liable may
be enforced against the Trustees.
14 Vesting of rights of the General in the Trustees
Any rights, including choses in action, arising out of contract or tort
relating to the real and personal property by this Act vested in the
Trustees which were at the time of his death in the said William
Bramwell Booth or at the commencement of this Act are in the
General are hereby vested in the Trustees and may be enforced by
them.
Endnotes
1 About the endnotes
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Endnotes
1 About the endnotes
Amending and modifying laws are annotated in the legislation history and the
amendment history. Current modifications are not included in the republished
law but are set out in the endnotes.
Not all editorial amendments made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 are
annotated in the amendment history. Full details of any amendments can be
obtained from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
Uncommenced amending laws are not included in the republished law. The
details of these laws are underlined in the legislation history. Uncommenced
expiries are underlined in the legislation history and amendment history.
If all the provisions of the law have been renumbered, a table of renumbered
provisions gives details of previous and current numbering.
The endnotes also include a table of earlier republications.
2 Abbreviation key
A = Act NI = Notifiable instrument
AF = Approved form o = order
am = amended om = omitted/repealed
amdt = amendment ord = ordinance
AR = Assembly resolution orig = original
ch = chapter par = paragraph/subparagraph
CN = Commencement notice pres = present
def = definition prev = previous
DI = Disallowable instrument (prev...) = previously
dict = dictionary pt = part
disallowed = disallowed by the Legislative r = rule/subrule
Assembly reloc = relocated
div = division renum = renumbered
exp = expires/expired R[X] = Republication No
Gaz = gazette RI = reissue
hdg = heading s = section/subsection
IA = Interpretation Act 1967 sch = schedule
ins = inserted/added sdiv = subdivision
LA = Legislation Act 2001 SL = Subordinate law
LR = legislation register sub = substituted
LRA = Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 underlining = whole or part not commenced
mod = modified/modification or to be expired
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3 Legislation history
This Act was originally a Commonwealth ordinance—the Salvation Army
Property Trust Ordinance 1934 No 11 (Cwlth).
The Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 (Cwlth), s 34 (4)
converted most former Commonwealth ordinances in force in the ACT into ACT
enactments. This allowed the ACT Legislative Assembly to amend and repeal the
laws. This Act was converted into an ACT enactment on 11 May 1989 (self-
government day).
As with most ordinances in force in the ACT, the name was changed from
Ordinance to Act by the Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989 A1989-21,
s 5 on 11 May 1989 (self-government day).
Before 11 May 1989, ordinances commenced on their notification day unless
otherwise stated (see Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910 (Cwlth),
s 12).
Legislation before becoming Territory enactment
Salvation Army Property Trust Act 1934 A1934-11
notified 3 May 1934 (Cwlth Gaz 1934 No 26)
commenced 3 May 1934
as amended by
Seat of Government (Designation) Ordinance 1938 Ord1938-25 s 2
notified 8 September 1938 (Cwlth Gaz 1938 No 53)
s 2 commenced 8 September 1938
Legislation after becoming Territory enactment
Registrar-General (Consequential Provisions) Act 1993 A1993-64 sch
1
notified 6 September 1993 (Gaz 1993 No S172)
s 1, s 2 commenced 6 September 1993 (s 2 (1))
sch 1 commenced 1 October 1993 (s 2 (2) and see Gaz 1993 No
S207)
Legislation (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001 A2001-44 pt 357
notified 26 July 2001 (Gaz 2001 No 30)
s 1, s 2 commenced 26 July 2001 (IA s 10B)
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pt 357 commenced 12 September 2001 (s 2 and see Gaz 2001 No
S65)
Evidence (Consequential Amendments) Act 2011 A2011-48 sch 1
pt 1.34
notified LR 22 November 2011
s 1, s 2 commenced 22 November 2011 (LA s 75 (1))
sch 1 pt 1.34 commenced 1 March 2012 (s 2 (1) and see Evidence
Act 2011 A2011-12, s 2 and CN2012-4)