12Power to make regulations

12 Power to make regulations

12 Power to make regulations

The General Assembly may make regulations for the purchase or acquisition of freehold or leasehold property as an investment for the funds of the church or for any particular use activity service or object or for the purposes of the church generally and in respect of the dealing with management and control of all or any property vested in the Trustees and in the case of all property held on behalf of congregations of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales or by Congregational Trustees until the same shall be vested in the Trustees under this Act such Assembly may make regulations for the management leasing mortgaging selling disposing of and exchanging thereof and with regard to all matters relating to resumptions of the same respectively by any competent authority: Provided that no regulation shall in the case of congregational property be passed to allow any such property to be nor shall the same in any case be leased, mortgaged, sold or exchanged or resumption claims in respect thereof made and completed without the consent of the congregations interested therein such consent to be operative and evidenced by a unanimous or majority vote as the case may be of the members of such respective congregations who are present at a meeting of the same congregations duly called for the purpose of considering and deciding on the questions affecting the particular matter to be then submitted to them.