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Act No. 36 of 1956
EAST & WEST INDIES BIBLE MISSION INCORPORATION

An Act to incorporate the Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission.

36 of 1956

[Assent 17th May, 1956]
[Commencement 31st October, 1956]

1. This Act may be cited as the East & West Indies Bible Mission Incorporation Act.

Short title.

2. The Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission (formerly called the West Indies Bible Mission) for the time being shall be deemed a corporation sole and shall be known and described as "Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission".

Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission to be a corporation sole.

3. (1) The Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission shall have full power to acquire by purchase, transfer, donation, exchange, devise, bequest, grant, gift, conveyance or otherwise any real or personal property or any estate or interest therein.

Power of Field Superintendent to acquire property.

(2) All real or personal property acquired under subsection (1) of this section shall be held for the use and benefit of the East & West Indies Bible Mission.

4. The Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission shall, subject to any restraint, reservation or condition contained in the document under which he shall have acquired title thereto, be entitled to sell, mortgage, lease and otherwise dispose of and deal with all property which may for the time being be vested in or have been acquired by him under any of the provisions of this Act.

Field Superintendent entitled to deal with property.

5. No change of the person holding the office of Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission shall affect any real or personal property or any estate or interest therein vested in the Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission but such property and estate and interest therein shall vest in the succeeding Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission in the same way and to the same extent that they vested in the former Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission.

Change of person holding office of Field Superintendent not to affect property and interest.

6. The Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission shall have power to appoint an Attorney for such time and purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the Power of Attorney.

Power of Field Superintendent to appoint an Attorney.

7. The Reverend Clarence J. Goodspeed shall be deemed to be the present Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission.

Present Field Superintendent.

8. All property in The Bahamas real or personal of what nature or kind soever which is now vested or held in any manner in trust for or for the use and benefit of the East & West Indies Bible Mission or the West Indies Bible Mission shall vest in and be held by the Field Superintendent of the East & West Indies Bible Mission.

Vesting of property at present held in trust for the Mission.

9. Nothing in this Act shall prejudice or affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors or of any other person or persons except such as are mentioned in this Act and those claiming by, from, through or under them.

Rights of the Queen and others reserved.


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