New South Wales: Wesley College Incorporation (Amendment) Act 1967 (NSW)

WESLEY COLLEGE INCORPORATION (AMEND- MENT) ACT. New South Wales ELIZABETH II REGINA SRRHKERREKEKRKEKKERK KKK KEE EEK EEE KE An Act to make provision with respect to the election of certain persons to the Council of Wesley College; for this purpose to amend the Wesley College Incorporation Act, 1910; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 18th Decem- ber, 1967.] WHEREAS Elizabeth II, Preamble. Wesley College Incorporation (Amendment). HEREAS by an Act intituled the Wesley College Incorporation Act, 1910, a body politic and incor- porate by the name of The Principal and Councillors of Wesley College was incorporated and by the said Act it was provided that Wesley College, thereby incorporated, shall be a college of and within the University of Sydney: AND WHEREAS it was also provided by the said Act that the Principal and the councillors for the time being shall form a council to be called the Council of Wesley College, in which shall be vested at all times the government in every respect of the said college, and all matters relating thereto: AND WHEREAS the said Act further provided that the council shall consist of the Principal, who shall always be a duly ordained minister of the Methodist Church of Australasia, seven other clerical councillors who shall be elected by the New South Wales Conference of the Methodist Church of Australasia, and sixteen laymen who by the said Act are defined as adult persons (other than ministers in full or probationary connection with the New South Wales Confer- 'ence of the Methodist Church of Australasia) who are members of the said church in New South Wales: AND WHEREAS by section eleven of the said Act it is provided that at each annual meeting of the council, to be held after the period of three years from the date of the notification by proclamation in the Government Gazette, that the Principal and twenty-three councillors had been duly elected appointed and determined respectively, one fourth of the lay councillors shall retire from office, but shall be eligible for re-election : AND WHEREAS by section twelve of the said Act it is provided that if a vacancy occurs in the office of councillor, the remaining councillors may, at a duly constituted meeting of the said council, elect a duly qualified minister or layman, as the case may require, to fill the vacancy ; but any person so elected shall retain his office so long only as the councillor whose seat has become vacant would have retained the same if no vacancy had occurred : AND WHEREAS it is expedient that former students of the College and also members of the teaching and administrative staff of the University of Sydney who are not eligible under the said Act for election to the said council by reason of the fact that they are not members of the said church, shall be eligible for election as lay members Wesley College Incorporation (Amendment). members of the said council: Be it therefore enacted by the Elizabeth II, Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and = consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the "Wesley College short title Incorporation (Amendment) Act, 1967". and citation. (2) The Wesley College Incorporation Act, 1910, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Wesley College Incorporation Act, 1910-1967. 2. The Wesley College Incorporation Act, 1910, is New sec. 'amended by inserting next after section twelve the following 12a. mew section :— 12a. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore provided frection— if a vacancy occurs in the office of a lay councillor the non- es : A + members remaining councillors may, at a duly constituted meeting of church. of the said council, elect a person who is not a member of the said church but who is a member of the teaching or administrative staff of the University of Sydney or a former student of the College, to fill the vacancy, and after his election such councillor shall be subject to retirement and be eligible for re-election in accordance with the provisions of section eleven as if he had been a layman within the meaning of this Act: Provided however that at no time shall there be more than four councillors who are not members of the said church.