BILL NO. 20

(as passed)

3rd Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
60 Elizabeth II, 2011



Private Bill



Trustees of Liverpool United Baptist Church Act
(amended)

CHAPTER 30 OF THE ACTS OF 2011



Vicki Conrad
Queens



First Reading: April 12, 2011 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)

Second Reading: May 5, 2011

Third Reading: May 12, 2011

Royal Assent: May 19, 2011

An Act to Amend Chapter 132
of the Acts of 1948,
An Act to Incorporate the Trustees
of Liverpool United Baptist Church

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 2 of Chapter 132 of the Acts of 1948, An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of Liverpool United Baptist Church, is amended by

(a) striking out "usage and practice of the churches of the Maritime United Baptist Church in the Maritime Convention and Western Association of the United Baptist Denomination in the Province of Nova Scotia" in the fifth to ninth lines and substituting "constitution and by-laws of the Church"; and

(b) striking out "usage and practice" in the last line and substituting "constitution and by-laws".

2 Section 4 of Chapter 132 is amended by adding "and to the trustees having received approval for any action taken under this Section by the members at a business meeting of the Church" immediately after "Act" in the last line.

3 Section 7 of Chapter 132 is amended by

(a) striking out "Three" in the second line and substituting "Eight";

(b) striking out "four-sevenths of the persons present, belonging to" in the sixth and seventh lines and substituting "a vote of fifty per cent plus one of the members present at a business meeting of"; and

(c) striking out "at a meeting" in the ninth line and substituting "such meeting having been".

4 Section 8 of Chapter 132 is amended by striking out "by the said board" in the last line.

5 Section 9 of Chapter 132 is amended by

(a) striking out "male" in the first line of clause (f);

(b) striking out "twenty-one" in the second line of clause (f) and substituting "nineteen"; and

(c) adding "in accordance with the constitution and by-laws of the Church" immediately after "re-election" in the second line of clause (g).

6 Clause 10(b) of Chapter 132 is amended by striking out "Sunday next" in the fourth line and substituting "two Sundays".

7 Section 11 of Chapter 132 is amended by striking out "of the Parliament of Canada" in the third line and substituting "contained in Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised".

8 Section 12 of Chapter 132 is amended by striking out "twenty-one" in the first line and substituting "nineteen".

9 Chapter 132 is further amended by striking out "Chairman" wherever it appears in Chapter 132 and substituting in each case "Chair".


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