1 Appointment Of Trustees To Hold Land

• 1 (1) If a religious society or congregation of Christians in British Columbia desires to take a conveyance of land for one or more of the following purposes, the society or congregation may appoint trustees to whom the land may be conveyed:

• (a) the site of a church, chapel, meeting house, school, belfry, burial ground or residence for the minister;
• (b) the support of public worship and the propagation of Christian knowledge;
• (c) the general purposes of the congregation;
• (d) to acquire other property under this Act.

• (2) The successors of trustees appointed under subsection (1) must be appointed in the manner specified in the conveyance under subsection (1), if applicable.
• (3) If a conveyance under subsection (1) does not specify the manner in which successors may be appointed, the society or congregation may appoint or elect successors to the trustees at a regular annual congregational meeting of the society or congregation, or at any special meeting called by written notice read to the congregation at the close of public worship on each of the last 2 preceding Sabbaths by the officiating minister or other person appointed to read the notice.
• (4) A notice for the purposes of subsection (3) may be given at the request of the officiating minister, the remaining trustees or any 5 members of the society or congregation.
• (5) A minute of any appointment or election signed by the chair and secretary of the meeting at which the appointment or election took place is for all purposes sufficient evidence of the fact that the persons named in it were appointed or elected at the meeting.
• (6) The persons appointed or elected and their successors have the same powers, rights, duties and are subject to the same trusts as the parties named as the original trustees.
• (7) The trustees and their successors in perpetual succession, by the name expressed in the conveyance, may take, hold and possess the land and other property conveyed.

1979-415-1.