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but rather interprets the 1900 legislation as an interest which precludes the exception "subject to the provisions of section eight hereof" and requires "all property, real and personal, belonging to or held by or in trust for or to the use of any congregation of any of the negotiating churches, shall, from and after the coming into force of this Act be held, used and administered for the benefit of the same congregation as a part of The United Church in the manner and upon the trusts and subject to the terms and provisions set forth in Schedule B to this Act" for properties of former Presbyterian congregations, except in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

At question is whether such reversionary interest commences "from and after the coming into force of this Act" or as understood by the former Presbyterian Church in Canada after "any congregation which shall have ceased to exist or has become disorganized".

I am appalled that a church which stands for justice would argue thus!
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Don Anderson
rev@magma.ca
http://www.axz.ca/