BILL NO. 54

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
53 Elizabeth II, 2004

Private Bill

Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church,
of Chester, Lunenburg County
(amended)

John E. Chataway
Chester-St. Margaret's

First Reading: April 20, 2004

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading: April 27, 2004

Third Reading: May 20, 2004 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)

This Bill makes changes that are necessary to reflect the re-alignment of Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Chester, from the Pittsburgh Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.

1 Section 2 of Chapter 35 of the Acts of 1881, An Act to incorporate Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Chester, Lunenburg County, is amended by striking out "Pittsburgh Synod now in connection with the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America" in the sixth, seventh and eighth lines and substituting "Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada".

2 Section 3 of Chapter 35 is amended by striking out "Pittsburgh Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in connection with the General Council" in the sixth and seventh lines and substituting "Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada".

7 In the event of the dissolution of the corporation for any reason and closure of the church, the lands, tenements and other estate, real, personal or mixed, belonging to the church, with the exception of the Perpetual Care Cemetery Fund, vest in the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and shall be held in trust in the event the church re-opens.