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Salvation Army (Queensland) Property Trust Act 1930 (Qld)

An Act to provide for the temporal affairs of the Salvation Army in the State 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 in England 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 1 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 the person, or at such other period as might be named in the document appointing the person; and that it should be the duty of every general superintendent to make in writing as soon as conveniently might be after appointment a statement as to the general superintendent's 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 the general superintendent 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 the general superintendent's continuance in office pending a new statement being signed by the general superintendent and delivered as before mentioned to such solicitor as aforesaid.