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TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
Short title and commencement 13
Definitions 13
Incorporation of trustees: Power to hold real and personal
property etc. 14
Number and appointment of trustees 14
Custody of common seal and quorum of trustees 15
Execution of deeds and contracts 15
Vesting of property in trustees 16
Powers of trustees 18
Trust property, how held 19
Power to mortgage 20
Power to sell 20
Protection of mortgagees and purchasers 21
Proceeds of sale of land held for the Social Work 21
Meetings of trustees, minutes etc. 22
Removal of trustees 22
Power of continuing trustees to act 22
Appointment of officers etc. 22
Construction of wills etc. 23
Vesting in trustees of property given or devised etc. for benefit
of The Salvation Army 24
Saving of rights 25
Vesting of rights of the General in the trustees 25
Vesting of estates in land in trustees 26
Property subject to the Religious Successory and Charitable
Trusts Act 1928 26
Shares in Salvation Army Auxiliary Company 27
Delegation of powers by the General 27
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ENDNOTES 28
General Information 28
Table of Amendments 29
Explanatory Details 30
Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1
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The Salvation Army (Victoria) Property
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Act No. 3896/1930
Version incorporating amendments as at 22 November 2000
An Act to provide for the Temporal Affairs of The Salvation
Army in the State of Victoria.
Preamble
WHEREAS by a Deed Poll (hereinafter called the
"Deed of Constitution") dated the seventh day of
August One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight and under the hand and seal of William
Booth and afterwards enrolled in the Chancery
Division of the High Court of Justice England on
the thirteenth day of August One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight the origin and doctrines
of the religious society or organization therein
referred to then known as the Christian Mission
were recited and stated and it was by the said Deed
of Constitution amongst other things provided that
the said Christian Mission was and should be
always 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 General Superintendent
should have the powers therein mentioned that the
said William Booth should continue to be for the
term of his nature life the General Superintendent
of the said Christian Mission unless he should
resign such office that the said William Booth and
every General Superintendent who should succeed
him should have power to appoint his successor to
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the office of General Superintendent and all the
rights powers and authorities of the office 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 or as to
the means which were to be taken for the
appointment of a successor at 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 in a sealed envelope 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 upon a new statement being
signed by him and delivered as before mentioned
to such Solicitor as aforesaid:
AND WHEREAS by the said Deed of Constitution
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 or operations thereof
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 let sell or otherwise dispose of any
such property land or buildings as he might deem
necessary in the interests of the said Christian
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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
and appoint trustees or a trustee of any part or parts
respectively of such property and direct the
conveyance or 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 such
trustees or trustee and upon such revocation the
same property should be conveyed or transferred to
such persons or person and upon such trusts as he
might direct but only for the benefit of the said
Christian Mission:
AND WHEREAS on or about the first day of
January One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine the name of the said religious society or
organization was changed from "The Christian
Mission" to "The Salvation Army" as appears by a
Memorandum under the hand of the said William
Booth dated the twenty-fourth day of June One
thousand eight hundred and eighty and enrolled in
the Supreme Court of Judicature England on the
twentieth day of April One thousand nine hundred
and six:
AND WHEREAS by an Indenture made the
second day of June One thousand eight hundred
and ninety-eight between the said William Booth
of the one part and Herbert Henry Booth and
William Peart of the other part after reciting the
Deed of Constitution and the change of name as
aforesaid and that the said Society or organization
had since been and was then known and designated
as The Salvation Army and that the title of the
General Superintendent thereof had been altered
into that of General and that the said William
Booth was then known and designated and it was
intended that every successor of his should
thereafter be known and designated as the General
of The Salvation Army and that the operations of
The Salvation Army had been extended to and for
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many years then past carried on in the Australian
Colonies and particularly in the Colony of Victoria
and that many Halls and other buildings pieces of
land and other hereditaments including chattels
real had been transferred conveyed or assured to or
acquired the said William Booth or other persons
on his behalf for divers estates and interests for the
purposes of or for benefit to The Salvation Army
as constituted and directed as thereinbefore
mentioned and that other like property might be so
transferred conveyed assured or acquired thereafter
by the said William Booth or other the General for
the time being of The Salvation Army or other
person or persons on behalf of the said William
Booth or other the General for the time being of
The Salvation Army (as has in fact taken place)
and that for the reasons therein appearing the said
William Booth had determined to appoint by the
said indenture local trustees of the thereinbefore
mentioned buildings lands and hereditaments and
to define the trusts upon which such trustees
should stand possessed thereof and had requested
the said Herbert Henry Booth and William Peart to
act as the first trustees thereof, which they had both
agreed to do as was testified by their executing the
said indenture, it was witnessed that in
consideration of the premises and in exercise of the
power reserved to him by the Deed of Constitution
and of every other power him enabling the said
William Booth thereby nominated and appointed
the said Herbert Henry Booth and William Peart
the first trustees of the said indenture and also
directed and declared that the said Herbert Henry
Booth and William Peart and the survivor of them
and the executors or administrators of such
survivor or other the trustees or trustee for the time
being thereof (all which persons or person were
thereinafter referred to as "the trustees") should
become trustees for the purposes with the powers
and upon the terms thereinafter appearing:
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AND WHEREAS the said Indenture provided inter
alia that the trustees should and were thereby
empowered to procure to be conveyed or
transferred to themselves any lands or any estates
or interests in any lands situated in Victoria then
held by The Salvation Army or by any person or
persons on behalf of The Salvation Army and were
further empowered at such times as they should
think fit to purchase or otherwise acquire any lands
or any estates or interest in any lands situate as
aforesaid and to obtain leases of any lands situate
as aforesaid for such term or terms as they should
deem advisable and to exchange any lands held by
themselves or by any persons or person on behalf
of The Salvation Army for other land situate as
aforesaid and were empowered to procure to be
conveyed or transferred to themselves any lands or
any estate or interest in any lands situate as
aforesaid which had already been or might at any
time thereafter be given by will or by deed or by
any other effectual method to The Salvation Army
or to any persons or person on behalf of The
Salvation Army and should hold all the lands and
all the estates and interests in the clause now in
recital mentioned and all other if any the property
to which the trustees might at any time or from
time to time be entitled under the said indenture on
behalf of The Salvation Army upon trust for the
said William Booth or other the General for the
time being of The Salvation Army and with the
powers and upon the terms thereinafter contained:
AND WHEREAS a Memorial of the said
Indenture was registered in the Office of the
Registrar-General on the seventeenth day of
January One thousand nine hundred, Number 296,
Book 407, and the said Indenture was deposited in
the said office pursuant to section one hundred and
eighty-nine of the Real Property Act 1890 on the
eighteenth day of January One thousand nine
hundred:
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AND WHEREAS the trust set forth in the said
Indenture was registered in the Register of
Successory Trusts of the Office of Titles,
folium 56:
AND WHEREAS various properties are now
subject to the said successory trust:
AND WHEREAS in the events which have
happened William McKenzie and Walter Suttor are
now the trustees of the property subject to the
trusts of the said Indenture:
AND WHEREAS by a further Deed Poll under the
hand and seal of the said William Booth bearing
date the twenty-sixth day of July One thousand
nine hundred and four and enrolled in the Supreme
Court of Judicature England on the twenty-seventh
day of July One thousand nine hundred and four it
was recited that in order to minimize 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 the office
and that the said William Booth had accordingly
determined to execute the said Deed Poll:
AND WHEREAS by the last mentioned Deed Poll
after setting forth more fully such events it was
declared (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 six of the Deed of Constitution
and to vacate such office upon the happening of
any of the events therein referred to that is to say
(inter alia) if the Commissioners of The Salvation
Army or a majority of such Commissioners
amounting to at least four in five should declare by
writing under their hands that they are satisfied that
the General is (inter alia) permanently
incapacitated by mental or physical infirmity from
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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
the High Council of The Salvation Army
thereinafter referred to:
AND WHEREAS the said William Booth died on
the twentieth day of August One thousand nine
hundred and twelve having by Deed Poll under his
hand and seal dated the twenty-first day of August
One thousand eight hundred and ninety in exercise
of the power in that behalf vested in him by the
Deed of Constitution as aforesaid appointed
William Bramwell Booth to be his successor and to
succeed him as from the time of his decease in the
office of General Superintendent and Commanding
Officer of The Salvation Army:
AND WHEREAS the said William Bramwell
Booth by Deed Poll under his hand and seal dated
the twenty-third day of August One thousand nine
hundred and twelve duly accepted the said office:
AND WHEREAS by Deed Poll under the hand and
seal of the said William Bramwell Booth bearing
date the first day of June One thousand nine
hundred and twenty it was (inter alia) recited that
in connexion with and as the outcome of the work
teaching and experience of The Salvation Army in
the United Kingdom and in Australia and in other
countries of the world the said William Booth and
the said William Bramwell Booth had evolved and
promulgated various operations for the social
moral and temporal welfare and improvement of
the poorer and more needy classes of society and
of persons who were destitute vicious or feeble-
minded or suffering from injury or sickness or ill-
health or orphans or other children needing care in
orphanages or reformatories and for other
charitable purposes which operations were then
and are now generally known and described as the
Social Work of The Salvation Army and which in
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relation to the Commonwealth of Australia
(thereinafter called "the said Commonwealth")
were thereinafter sometimes referred to as the
Social Work and that in connexion with the
carrying on of the Social Work in the said
Commonwealth the said William Booth and the
said William Bramwell Booth as his successor in
office had acquired certain real and personal
property particularized 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 right and 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
exclusively in and to the Social Work in or
connected with the said Commonwealth and that
the Social Work should be defined and regulated
and the trusts of the said real and personal property
already acquired and thereafter to be acquired for
or in connexion therewith declared as thereinafter
appearing:
AND IT WAS THEREBY WITNESSED that the
said William Bramwell Booth declared that the
real and personal property particularized 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 connexion with the said
Commonwealth and all real and personal property
for the time being representing the same or any
part thereof respectively and all which were
sometimes thereinafter 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 moral and temporal
welfare and improvement of the poorer and more
needy classes of society and of persons who are
destitute or vicious or feeble-minded or suffering
from injury or sickness or ill-health or orphans or
other children needing care in orphanages or
reformatories in the said Commonwealth and for
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other charitable purposes in or in connexion with
the said 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 THAT the Social Work should at all times
thereafter be under the oversight direction and
control of the person who should be for the time
being General of The Salvation Army and he
should be called in relation to the Social Work the
Director of the Social Work (thereinafter referred
to as "the 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
purposes of the trusts thereby declared:
AND IT WAS PROVIDED that for the purpose of
identifying and ear-marking the trust property and
the income thereof and 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 Deed Poll now in recital and that whenever any
property real or personal acquired for the purposes
of the Social Work should be conveyed leased
transferred assigned 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 conveyed leased transferred
assigned or assured to be sufficiently identified or
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ear-marked as being property devoted to the
purposes of the Social Work:
AND WHEREAS the said recited Deed Poll of the
first day of June One thousand nine hundred and
twenty set forth the powers which the Director
should have over and on and concerning the said
trust property:
AND WHEREAS none of the properties subject to
the last recited Deed Poll is now subject to the said
successory trust:
AND WHEREAS at a duly convened meeting of
the High Council of The Salvation Army held at
Sunbury in England on the eighth day of January
and on the thirteenth day of February One
thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine the High
Council of The Salvation Army referred to in the
said recited Deed Poll of the twenty-sixth day of
July One thousand nine hundred and four duly and
in accordance with such Deed Poll by resolution a
copy of which (inter alia) was enrolled in the
Supreme Court of Judicature England on the
twentieth day of February One thousand nine
hundred and twenty-nine adjudicated the said
William Bramwell Booth unfit for office as
General of The Salvation Army 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 the twenty-
sixth day of July One thousand nine hundred and
four elected and appointed Edward John Higgins
of 101 Queen Victoria Street London England to
be the General of The Salvation Army:
AND WHEREAS by Deed Poll under his hand and
seal dated the thirteenth day of February One
thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine and
enrolled in the Supreme Court of Judicature
England on the twentieth day of February One
thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine the said
Edward John Higgins duly accepted the said office
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upon and subject to the terms not only of the said
recited Deed Poll of the seventh day of August
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight but
also of the said recited Deed Poll of the twenty-
sixth day of July One thousand nine hundred and
four:
AND WHEREAS a Company known as The
Salvation Army Auxiliary Company of Australia
Proprietary Limited was formed and registered in
the State of Victoria under the Companies Act
1915 and is the owner of certain property real and
personal:
AND WHEREAS many of the shares in the said
Company were at the time of the death of the said
William Bramwell Booth held by and vested in
him as General of The Salvation Army and still
stand in his name and the other shares in the said
Company are held by nominees of the said William
Bramwell Booth as such General:
AND WHEREAS the said William Bramwell
Booth died on the sixteenth day of June One
thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine:
AND WHEREAS Joseph Gill late of Little
Collins-street Melbourne in the State of Victoria
shipping agent and wool broker and of
"Winderradeen" station Goulburn in the State of
New South Wales grazier deceased who died on
the eleventh day of April One thousand nine
hundred and twenty-six by his will dated the
nineteenth day of April One thousand nine hundred
and twenty-three after appointing trustees thereof
and bequeathing certain legacies devised and
bequeathed all the rest and residue of his estate to
the said trustees upon trust that the said trustees
should sell and convert the same into money as
therein provided and should stand possessed of the
net moneys to arise from such sale and conversion
after making the payments therein mentioned upon
trust as to as well the capital as the income of the
said net moneys for such of the three branches of
The Salvation Army at Melbourne in the State of
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Victoria at Sydney in the State of New South
Wales and at Goulburn in the last-mentioned State
as should be in existence when the date of
distribution arrived in equal shares payment to be
made as therein provided:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to provide that
the whole of the property real and personal of The
Salvation Army in Victoria which was at the time
of his death held by and now stands in the name of
the said William Bramwell Booth upon the trusts
of the hereinbefore recited Deeds Poll of the
seventh day of August One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight and the twenty-sixth day of July
One thousand nine hundred and four and the first
day of June One thousand nine hundred and twenty
respectively and which stands in the names of
William McKenzie and Walter Suttor upon the
trusts of the hereinbefore recited indenture of the
second day of June One thousand eight hundred
and ninety-eight and of or to which The Salvation
Army is otherwise entitled whether 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 and all choses in action
and other property subject to the hereinbefore
recited trusts or any of them or any interest in
respect thereof except property held by and shares
in the said The Salvation Army Auxiliary
Company of Australia Proprietary Limited and
except the interest of The Salvation Army or of
any fund department branch corps auxiliary or
institution thereof under the will of the said Joseph
Gill deceased should vest in a body of Trustees and
the said body of Trustees should be a body
corporate with the powers and authorities
hereinafter set forth and to provide for the vesting
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and control of the shares in the said The Salvation
Army Auxiliary Company of Australia Proprietary
Limited:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King'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):
Short title and commencement
This Act may be cited as The Salvation Army
(Victoria) Property Trust Act 1930 and shall
come into force on the publication in the
Government Gazette of the names of the first
trustees.
Definitions
In this Act unless inconsistent with the context or
subject matter—
"body corporate" means "The Salvation Army
(Victoria) Property Trust" as incorporated by
this Act;
"Deed of Construction" means the hereinbefore
recited deed poll of the seventh day of
August One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight;
"General" means the General (formerly called
General Superintendent) for the time being
of The Salvation Army under its
Constitution;
"Salvation Army" means the religious society or
organization referred to in the hereinbefore
recited deeds poll of the seventh day of
August One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight, the twenty-sixth day of July
One thousand nine hundred and four, and the
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first day of June One thousand nine hundred
and twenty and the hereinbefore recited
indenture of the second day of June One
thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight;
"said recited deeds poll" means the Deed of
Constitution and the hereinbefore recited
deeds poll of the twenty-sixth day of July
One thousand nine hundred and four and the
first day of June One thousand nine hundred
and twenty;
"trustees" means the persons for the time being
constituting the body corporate;
"will" includes codicil and every other
testamentary disposition.
3. Incorporation of trustees: Power to hold real and
personal property etc.
The trustees for the time being shall be a body
corporate by the name of "The Salvation Army
(Victoria) Property Trust" and shall have
perpetual succession and a common seal and shall
be capable of purchasing or otherwise acquiring,
holding, managing, controlling, and subject to this
Act, granting, transferring, mortgaging, demising,
selling, disposing of, creating or reserving
easements over or otherwise dealing with any
property real or personal and of suing and being
sued by the aforesaid name and doing and
suffering all such other acts and things as bodies
corporate may by law do or suffer.
4. Number and appointment of trustees
(1) The number of the trustees shall be not less than
five and not more than seven, and shall consist of
persons appointed by the General in writing from
time to time whether before or after the passing of
this Act.
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(2) The names of the first trustees shall be published
in the Government Gazette as soon as may be
after the passing of this Act.
5. Custody of common seal and quorum of trustees
(1) The trustees for the time being shall have the
custody of the common seal of the body corporate
and the form of such seal and all other matters
relating thereto shall from time to time be
determined at a meeting of the trustees.
(2) The trustees or any three of them acting in
pursuance of a resolution of the trustees may
exercise any power conferred by this Act on the
trustees or the body corporate.
(3) At a meeting of the trustees three shall form a
quorum.
6. Execution of deeds and contracts
(1) The common seal of the body corporate shall not
be affixed to any document except by the
authority of a resolution of the trustees and the
affixing of the seal shall be attested by at least two
trustees or in such other way as the trustees may
from time to time appoint and such attestation
shall be sufficient evidence of the authority to
affix the seal.
(2) Contracts on behalf of the body corporate may be
made as follows—
(a) any contract which if made between private
persons would be by law required to be in
writing under seal may be made on behalf of
the body corporate in writing under its
common seal affixed as provided in sub-
section (1) of this section and may in the
same manner be varied or discharged;
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(b) any contract which if made between private
persons would be by law required to be in
writing signed by the parties to be charged
therewith may be made on behalf of the body
corporate in writing signed by any person
acting under the authority of the trustees and
may in the same manner be varied or
discharged;
(c) any contract which if made between private
persons would by law be valid although
made by parol only and not reduced to
writing may be made by parol on behalf of
the body corporate by any person acting
under the authority of the trustees and may in
the same manner be varied or discharged.
(3) All contracts made according to sub-section (2) of
this section shall be effectual in law and shall bind
the body corporate and its successors and all other
parties thereto their heirs executors or
administrators (as the case may be).
(4) The production of a document which purports to
be executed in accordance with the requirements
of sub-section (1) of this section shall be primâ
facie evidence and in favour of the Crown, the
Registrar-General, the Registrar of Titles, and
every person who deals for value with the trustees
be conclusive evidence that such document was
executed in accordance with the requirements of
the said sub-section (1).
7. Vesting of property in trustees
All lands, tenements, and hereditaments
(including chattels real) situate in the State of
Victoria together with all rights, easements, and
appurtenances relating thereto and all personal
property situate as aforesaid which were at the
time of his death held by and immediately before
the commencement of this Act stood in the name
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of the said William Bramwell Booth, as General
of The Salvation Army or Director of the Social
Work of The Salvation Army respectively, upon
the trusts of the said recited deeds poll or any of
them or which at the time of the commencement
of this Act are subject to the trusts of the
hereinbefore recited indenture or which were at
the time of his death held by and immediately
before the commencement of this Act stood in the
name of the said William Bramwell Booth or are
held by and stand in the name or names of any
other person or persons in trust for The Salvation
Army or for any of its funds or any department of
its work or any branch corps auxiliary or
institution of The Salvation Army or to which
The Salvation Army is otherwise entitled and all
choses in action and other property in Victoria
subject to the hereinbefore recited trusts or any
trusts declared pursuant to the said recited deeds
poll and indenture or any of them and all other
property real and personal which immediately
before the commencement of this Act was held in
trust for The Salvation Army in Victoria or for
any of its funds or any department of its work or
any branch corps auxiliary or institution thereof or
to which immediately before the commencement
of this Act The Salvation Army in Victoria was
entitled (save and except any property held by and
any shares in The Salvation Army Auxiliary
Company of Australia Proprietary Limited and
save and except the interest of The Salvation
Army or of any fund department branch corps
auxiliary or institution thereof under the
hereinbefore recited will of Joseph Gill deceased),
shall (subject to the provisions of sections
nineteen and twenty-two of this Act) vest in the
body corporate upon the trusts and with the
powers, authorities, and discretions and subject to
the terms, provisions, and conditions of this Act
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and of the Deed of Constitution and the said deed
poll of William Booth bearing date the twenty-
sixth day of July One thousand nine hundred and
four or of the said deed poll of William Bramwell
Booth bearing date the first day of June One
thousand nine hundred and twenty, according to
the particular trusts in each case upon which the
same were held immediately before the
commencement of this Act but subject and
without prejudice to the special trusts if any upon
which the same were so 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 and upon and subject to no other trusts or
provisions whatsoever.
8. Powers of trustees
The trustees shall be entitled at all times after the
commencement of this Act to exercise all the
powers relating to the lands, tenements, and
hereditaments (including chattels real) rights
easements and appurtenances and personal
property and choses in action hereby vested in the
body corporate or which may hereafter be
acquired by the body corporate or which may
become vested in the body corporate under this
Act or otherwise which were immediately before
the commencement of this Act 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 said recited
Deed of Constitution and deed poll of the twenty-
sixth day of July One thousand nine hundred and
four and under the said recited deed poll on the
first day of June One thousand nine hundred and
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twenty according as the trustees hold the same
upon the trusts of such Deed of Constitution and
first-mentioned deed poll or of such second-
mentioned deed poll (as the case may be) and may
exercise all or any of such powers and of the
powers by this Act conferred upon them,
notwithstanding there is 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 provided that such trusts
shall not be enlarged modified varied or altered
save as provided in the next succeeding section.
9. Trust property, how held
(1) All property from time to time vested in the body
corporate shall so far as the same is not subject to
any express trust other than the said recited deeds
poll be held and dealt with as follows—
(a) property so held for the general purposes of
The Salvation Army shall be held and dealt
with in accordance with and subject to such
of the trusts powers and provisions of the
Deed of Constitution and the deed poll of the
twenty-sixth day of July One thousand nine
hundred and four as are applicable to such
general purposes;
(b) property so held for the Social Work of The
Salvation Army shall be held and dealt with
in accordance with and subject to the said
recited deed poll of the first day of June One
thousand nine hundred and twenty:
Provided that no person dealing with the trustees
shall be bound to inquire into the propriety or
necessity of any such dealing.
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(2) (a) The trustees may from time to time with the
consent of the General enlarge modify vary
or alter the trusts upon which for the time
being any of the said property is held:
Provided that all such property shall subject to any
such enlargement modification variation or
alteration be held upon either one or other of the
trusts mentioned in the last preceding sub-section.
(b) This sub-section shall apply to property the
subject of any express trust other than the
said recited deeds poll only to the extent (if
any) and subject to the conditions (if any) in
accordance with which such trust could have
been altered if this Act had not been passed.
10. Power to mortgage
The body corporate may from time to time borrow
or secure the payment of any sum or sums of
money and for that purpose may mortgage or
charge all or any real or personal property for the
time being vested in it:
Provided that no debt incurred for the general
purposes of The Salvation Army shall be secured
upon any property which is for the time being held
upon trust for the Social Work of The Salvation
Army and that any moneys raised on any property
which is for the time being held upon trust for the
Social Work of The Salvation Army shall only be
used for the purposes of the said Social Work.
11. Power to sell
The body corporate may from time to time sell
any real or personal property for the time being
vested in it by public auction or private contract as
the trustees deem expedient at such price and
upon such terms as to payment of purchase money
and on such conditions and generally in such
manner as they think fit and may convey transfer
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or assign the same or any part thereof to the
purchaser or purchasers thereof or as he or they
directs or direct and the property so conveyed
transferred or assigned shall thereupon be
absolutely freed and discharged from the trusts
affecting the same.
12. Protection of mortgagees and purchasers
(1) The receipt in writing of the trustees or of the
body corporate or of any person or persons
authorized by them or it in writing to receive the
same for the mortgage moneys raised on any
property mortgaged by the body corporate or for
the purchase money of any property sold under
this Act or for any other moneys payable to the
trustees or the body corporate shall exonerate the
mortgagee the purchaser and any other person
paying such moneys as aforesaid 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.
(2) This section shall be read in aid of and not in
derogation from any other protection afforded to
any such mortgagee purchaser or person by any
other Act now or hereafter in force.
13. Proceeds of sale of land held for the Social Work
The proceeds of the sale of any property real or
personal held for the purpose of the said Social
Work shall be devoted to the purposes of the said
Social Work, and the body corporate may for such
purposes purchase or otherwise acquire therewith
any property real or personal.
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14. Meetings of trustees, minutes etc.
(1) The trustees may regulate the time and place of
their meetings and the procedure to be followed
thereat.
(2) The trustees shall hold regular meetings, and shall
cause to be kept minutes of their proceedings and
their resolutions, which shall at all times be open
for inspection by the General or any person
appointed by him.
(3) The trustees shall keep a register of all lands
vested in the body corporate and shall indicate in
such register which lands are held for the general
purposes of The Salvation Army and which are
held for the Social Work of The Salvation Army.
15. Removal of trustees
The General may from time to time by writing
remove any person from the office of trustee and
appoint another person to be a trustee in the place
of any person so removed or whose office has for
any other reason become vacant and if the number
of trustees is less than seven may appoint
additional trustees so that the total number of
trustees does not exceed seven.
16. Power of continuing trustees to act
The continuing trustees, provided there are not
less than three trustees, may act notwithstanding
any vacancy in the number of trustees either by
death, resignation, or removal, but each vacancy
shall be filled as soon as practicable after such
vacancy occurs.
17. Appointment of officers etc.
(1) The trustees may appoint officers of the body
corporate and a certificate under the seal of the
body corporate of the appointment of a secretary
or other officer shall be primâ facie evidence and
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in favour of the Crown, the Registrar-General, the
Registrar of Titles and every person who deals for
value with the trustees conclusive evidence of his
or their due appointment.
(2) A certificate signed by the secretary for the time
being of the body corporate as to who are the
persons for the time being constituting the body
corporate and a certificate of such secretary
certifying to any resolutions of the trustees shall
be primâ facie evidence and in favour of the
Crown the Registrar-General and the Registrar of
Titles and every person who deals for value with
the trustees conclusive evidence as to who are the
trustees for the time being and of any such
resolution (as the case may be) and judicial notice
shall be taken of the signature of the secretary for
the time being appearing on every such certificate.
18. Construction of wills etc.
(1) Whenever by any will (other than the hereinbefore
recited will of Joseph Gill deceased) deed or other
instrument or by any gift or disposition of
property any property real or personal has been or
is devised bequeathed given granted released
conveyed transferred assigned or appointed to or
has been or is declared or directed to be held upon
trust for the benefit of The Salvation Army in
Victoria or of any of its funds or any department
of its work or of any branch, corps, auxiliary, or
institution thereof or shall be or become
receivable by or payable to or for the benefit of
The Salvation Army in Victoria or by to or for the
benefit of any such fund, department, branch,
corps, auxiliary or institution—
(a) such will deed or other instrument gift or
disposition shall be construed and operate
and take effect as though the body corporate
were named therein;
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(b) the acknowledgment or receipt of the
trustees or of any person or persons
authorized in writing by the trustees for any
such property shall be a sufficient discharge
therefor; and
(c) all property real or personal so devised
bequeathed given granted released conveyed
transferred assigned or appointed or declared
or directed to be held upon trust as aforesaid
shall, subject to the trusts of such will, deed,
or other instrument, gift or disposition and
subject to any direction to the contrary
therein contained or declared thereby 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, assignment, or delivery thereof
to the body corporate.
(2) The person or persons in whom the interest of The
Salvation Army or of any fund department branch
corps auxiliary or institution thereof under the
hereinbefore recited will of Joseph Gill deceased
is vested may from time to time transfer to the
body corporate any property to which The
Salvation Army in Victoria or any fund
department branch corps auxiliary or institution
thereof is entitled under the said will and
thereupon such property shall vest in the body
corporate to be held upon the trusts of the said
will and the provisions of this Act shall apply
thereto accordingly.
19. Vesting in trustees of property given or devised etc.
for benefit of The Salvation Army
Whenever by any will (other than the hereinbefore
recited will of Joseph Gill deceased) deed or other
instrument or by any gift or disposition of
property made before but not taking effect until
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after the commencement of this Act, or by any
will, deed or other instrument or by any gift or
other disposition of property made after the
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
in Victoria or to or for the benefit of any of its
funds, or of any department of its work, or of any
branch, corps, auxiliary, or institution 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,
department, branch, corps, auxiliary, or institution
thereof) all such real and personal property shall
vest in the body corporate.
20. Saving of rights
Nothing contained in or done under this Act shall
be deemed to affect prejudicially or to deprive any
person of any right whatsoever which if this Act
had not been passed might have been enforceable
against the General or his predecessors in office;
and such right so far as it relates to any property
vested in the body corporate pursuant to this Act
may be enforced against the body corporate.
21. Vesting of rights of the General in the trustees
Any rights, however arising, relating in any wise
to the real and personal property held in trust for
or pursuant to this Act vested in the body
corporate which were at the time of his death in
the said William Bramwell Booth or immediately
before the commencement of this Act were in the
General are hereby vested in the body corporate
and may be enforced by it in the same manner as
the said William Bramwell Booth if he were still
living or the General (as the case may be) might
have enforced the same if this Act had not been
passed.
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22. Vesting of estates in land in trustees
Where any property which but for this section
would be vested in the body corporate under or by
virtue of this Act consists of any estate in land
then such estate shall be held on trust for or on
behalf of the body corporate and—
(a) if such property is an estate in land under the
Transfer of Land Act 1958, on application
in that behalf by the trustees to the Registrar
of Titles and on proof of his satisfaction of
the facts relating thereto and payment of the
proper fees, he shall make the proper
recording in the Register1 and thereupon
without any transfer of such estate the whole
estate shall vest in the body corporate;
(b) if such property is an estate in land not under
the Transfer of Land Act 1958, on
application in that behalf by the trustees to
the Registrar-General and on proof to his
satisfaction of the facts relating thereto and
payment of the proper fees, he shall make the
proper entry in the appropriate register and
thereupon without any conveyance or other
assurance of such estate it shall vest in the
body corporate for all the estate of the person
so holding on trust.
23. Property subject to the Religious Successory and
Charitable Trusts Act 1928
Where under or in pursuance of this Act any
property which is the subject of the hereinbefore
recited trust registered folium 56 in the Register of
Successory Trusts becomes vested in the body
corporate the said Register shall thereupon as to
such property be closed; and the Registrar of
Titles shall upon production to him of any
document endorsed under section sixteen of the
Religious Successory and Charitable Trusts
s. 22
S. 22(a)
amended by
Nos 18/1989
s. 13(Sch. 2
item 77(b)),
74/2000
s. 3(Sch. 1
item 113).
S. 22(b)
amended by
No. 18/1989
s. 13(Sch. 2
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Act 1928 or any corresponding previous
enactment cancel such endorsement.
24. Shares in Salvation Army Auxiliary Company
(1) All shares in The Salvation Army Auxiliary
Company of Australia Proprietary Limited now
standing in the name of the said William
Bramwell Booth shall vest in the said Edward
John Higgins as General or in such person or
persons as he shall direct and upon presentation to
the secretary for the time being of such company
of an application or applications in that behalf
from the said Edward John Higgins the said
Edward John Higgins or the person or persons
named in such application or applications shall be
registered in the books of the company in place of
the said William Bramwell Booth as the holder of
the shares mentioned in such application or
applications.
(2) All shares in the said company now standing in
the names of any persons other than the said
William Bramwell Booth and held by such
persons upon trust for the said William Bramwell
Booth shall be held by such persons free from
such trust.
25. Delegation of powers by the General
The General may from time to time delegate to
any person or persons the exercise of all or any of
the powers conferred upon him by this Act and
may from time to time revoke any such delegation
and for the purposes aforesaid may execute such
powers of attorney and other instruments as he
may think fit.
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ENDNOTES
General Information
The Salvation Army (Victoria) Property Trust Act 1930 was assented to
on 18 December 1930 and came into force on the publication in the
Government Gazette of the names of the first trustees—14 January 1931:
Government Gazette 14 January 1931 page 113.
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2. Table of Amendments
This Version incorporates amendments made to The Salvation Army
(Victoria) Property Trust Act 1930 by Acts and subordinate instruments.
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Transfer of Land (Computer Register) Act 1989, No. 18/1989
Assent Date: 16.5.89
Commencement Date: 3.2.92: Government Gazette 18.12.91 p. 3488
Current State: All of Act in operation
Statute Law Revision Act 2000, No. 74/2000
Assent Date: 21.11.00
Commencement Date: S. 3(Sch. 1 item 113) on 22.11.00: s. 2(1)
Current State: This information relates only to the provision/s
amending the The Salvation Army (Victoria)
Property Trust Act 1930
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3. Explanatory Details
1 S. 22(a): The amendment proposed by section 13(Sch. 2 item 77(a)) of the
Transfer of Land (Computer Register) Act 1989, No. 18/1989 is not
included in this publication as it incorrectly refers to section 28(a) of this Act.
Endnotes