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LAWS OF FIJI
CHAPTER 68
RELIGIOUS BODIES REGISTRATION
Ordinance No. 13 of 1881
AN ACT
TO REGULATE THE REGISTRATION OF RELIGIOUS
BODIES
AND THEIR
REPRESENTATION BY TRUSTEES FOR THE PURPOSE
OF
SUITS AND FOR
THE HOLDING OF LAND
[1st July, 1881]
Short title
1.
This Act may be cited as the Religious Bodies Registration Act.
Suits to be brought by or against trustees
2.
All suits and proceedings at law instituted or brought by or against any
religious body shall be instituted or brought by or against
the persons
registered as hereinafter provided as trustees for the time being of such
religious body and any such suit or proceeding
shall be carried to its final
termination notwithstanding any alteration in the registered trustees of such
religious body while
such suit or proceeding is pending.
Memorial of names of trustees to be registered
3.
A memorial of the names of the trustees of any such religious body to be
registered under this Act shall be recorded in the office
of the Registrar of
Titles in the form contained in the Schedule. Such memorial shall be signed by
the principal or head of such
religious body in Fiji and at least two of the
ministers or priests thereof resident in Fiji or, in case there shall be less
than
such number of ministers or priests of any such religious body in Fiji, by
the principal officer or head and at least two members
of such religious body,
and the names of the persons for the time being registered in either of the
above cases shall be taken for
all purposes as the names of the trustees of such
religious body.
On death, resignation, etc., of any trustee new memorial to be effected
4.
In the event of the death, resignation or removal from his trust of any trustee
of a religious body, the requisite alteration in
the names of the trustees of
such body shall be effected by a new memorial to be signed and registered under
the conditions imposed
by the provisions of section
3.
Until the registration of such new memorial the trustees already registered
shall be treated for all purposes as existing trustees,
and no trust under this
Act shall in any case devolve upon the heirs or personal representatives of any
trustee.
Certificates of title may be issued to trustees for grant of land issued prior to Act
5.
All grants of land heretofore issued to any persons on behalf of any religious
body shall be held by such persons in trust for the
said religious body, and on
the registration of trustees as provided in this Act, certificates of title may
be issued to such trustees
in lieu of any grant or certificate of title issued
before the commencement of this Act, subject however to any existing leases or
encumbrances affecting the land comprised in any such grant or certificate of
title.
Grants hereafter to be issued to the registered trustees
6.
All grants which may hereafter be issued in respect of claims to land submitted
for the consideration of the Minister shall be issued
to the trustees registered
under this Act as trustees of the religious body to which such land shall be
granted.
Trustees in dealing with land under Land Transfer Act to be deemed proprietors, etc.
7.
The registered trustees of any religious body under this Act shall for all
purposes of dealing with any land under the provisions
of the Land Transfer Act
be treated as the proprietors, lessors or otherwise according to their interest
in the land intended to be dealt
with:
Provided always that their
interest in such land shall in no case devolve on their personal
representatives.
(Cap.
131.)
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SCHEDULE
(Section
3)
Memorial of the names of
trustees for Fiji of the
{here
name
religious
body}
pursuant to the Religious Bodies Registration
Act.
Names
of
Trustees
A.B. President (or Chairman or, as the case may be).
C.D.
E.F.
G.H.
Signed
in the presence of
Registration
fee.
(Name
of
witness
or
witnesses)
Controlled by Ministry of the Attorney-General
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