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A BILL ENTITLED AN ACT to Amend the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica (Incorporation and Vesting) Law.

WHEREAS the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica (hereinafter called "the Church") an affiliate of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World Incorporated of the United States of America (hereinafter called "the Parent Church"), was incorporated on the 18th day of August, 1960 as a corporate body with perpetual succeSSIOn.
AND WHEREAS pursuant to subsection (3) of section 3 of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica (Incorporation and Vesting) Law (hereinafter called "the Law") no sale, conveyance, 2 transfer, assignment, mortgage or any other disposition of real estate by the Church shall be of any effect, force or validity unless the prior consent in writing of the Board of Directors of the Parent Church or of the Presiding Bishop or General Secretary thereof shall be obtained.
AND WHEREEAS pursuant to subsection (4) of section 3 of the Law no deed or document purporting to be executed by the Church shall be of any force or validity unless it be sealed with the Corporate seal of the Church and signed by not less than three members of the Church along with the Presiding Bishop of the Parent Church.

AND WHEREAS the aforementioned affiliation between the Church and the Parent Church renders the Church unable to exercise the right of self-government or autonomy.
AND WHEREAS while retaining its affiliation with the Parent Church, the Church desires to make legal and other decisions and otherwise act independently of the Parent Church and therefore considers it desirable and expedient that the Law be amended.

[ ] NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Representatives of Jamaica and by the authority of the same as follows:­ Short title and construction.

1.
1.

This Law may be cited as the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica (Incorporation and Vesting) (Amendment) Law, 2010, and shall be read and construed as one with the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica (Incorporation and Vesting) Law, 1960, (hereinafter referred to as the principal Law) and all .

amendments thereto.

Amendment of section 2 of principal Law.

2.
The principal Law is amended by deleting section 2 and substituting therefor the following as section 2­ "Interpreta­ tion 2Jn this Law, requires-­ unles the context otherwise "Church" means tthe Pentecostal of the World of Jamaica; Assemblies 3 "~onstitution" means the Constitution and by­ laws of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica as ratified by the duly constituted voting delegates at the Annual General Meeting of the Church and as amended from time to time; "Corporation" means the the body incorporated by this Law; "Parent Church" means the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World Incorporated of the United States of America.
", 3.

Section 3 of the principal Law is repealed and the following substituted therefor­ "Incorpora- tion of Church.

3.--{l)The Church and the officers so designated by the Constitution are hereby declared, constituted and appointed a Corporation and Body Corporate to have continuance forever and perpetual.

succession by the name the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica and possessed of a corporate seal and by that name may sue and be sued in all Courts of this Island.
(2) The persons holding the several offices of the Church shall be those appointed in accordance with the Constitution.

(3) No act or proceeding of the Corporation shall be invaliclated by reason of any vacancy in the body or in any of the offices of the Church or by any defect in the appointment ofany such person to any such office.

(4) The seal of the Corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the Corporation may from time to time determine.
(5) Upon the recording in the Island Records Office or the lodging in the Office of Titles of a certificate under the seal ofthe Corporation of the 4 appointment of any person in accordance with subsection (2), the persons named in such certificate shall be deemed to be the holders of the offices named therein until the recording or lodging of a certificate of the appointment or another person to such office.
(6) No deed or document purported to be executed by the Corporation shall be of any force or validity unless it be sealed with the seal of the Corporation and signed by the officers as designated in the Constitution.

(7) In all matters or things within the province or discretion or subject to the decision, control or management of the Corporation the determination of a majority of the officers as prescribed by the Constitution shall be deemed and taken to be the determination of the Corporation.
(8) In the case of any other church or congregation desiring to unite with the Corporation and to adopt its tenets, doctrines and forms of worship and to submit to its jurisdiction, the Corporation may accept the transfer of the property of such other church or congregation, to be held subject to the trusts affecting the property vested in the Corporation, and such transfer shall be made by the Trustee of such property under the resolution of such other church or congregation directing such transfer, duly passed at a duly constituted meeting of such church or congregation by the like majorities and in like manner as would authorize a sale of the same lands, or otherwise duly passed in accordance with the rules or practices of such church or congregation."
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Insertion of new sections 4A and 48 of principal Law.

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The principal Law is amended by inserting next after section 4 the following as sections 4A and 4B­ "Further provisions ~~:ting.

4A.

All property real and personal in the Island bequeathed by Will or otherwise given to the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica 5 shall be held by, and is hereby vested in and shall be deemed to be property of the Corporation.

4B.
In the case that there shall be any real or personal property held on trust similar to that mentioned in the Schedule to this Law, such property shall be deemed to be vested in the Corporation as from the coming into effect of this Law provided that no such ve~ting shall take place until­ (a) the Corporation shall have obtained written legal advice to the effect that the said property is held on similar trust as aforesaid; and (b) the majority ofmembers ofthe church or congregation affected shall by resolution have signified their consent thereto.".
subsection (d) the following as subsection (e)­ 5.

Section 5 ofthe principal Law is amended by inserting next after Amendment of section 5 of principal Law.

"(e) to make such rules and by-laws as the Corporation thinks fit in order to carry out the purposes ofthis Law.".

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The principal Law is amended by deleting the Schedule thereto Amendment of Schedule.
and substituting therefor the following as the Schedule-- SCHEDULE (Section 4) Part A-Lands Registered under the Registration of Titles Act Name of Property Parish Quantity of Land Purpose or Use Name of Proprietor Date of Title Vol.

Folio 8 Nugent Street S1.

Catherine 3,175.9 Sq.

ft. (2) 8 Nugent Street St. Catherine 10,154.6 Sq.

ft. (3) 2 Beckford Street St. Catherine Church Church Indigent Home PAW.

Aug. 28, 1997 1301373 P.A.W.

Aug. 28, 1997 1301374 PAW.


May 22, 2001 1334610 (4) Chantilly Gardens Westmoreland 5,91916/IOSq.

ft. Church & House P.A.W.

Jan. 1, 1975 1120556 0­ (5) 38 Jobs Lane S1.

Catherine 16,955.7 Sq.m.

Headquarters PAW.

May 24, 2000 1325775 (6) Lambs Pen (26 Bagga Road) (7) Jones Pen (8 Pouyatt St.) St. Andrew (Diagram mislaid) Church PAW.

March 21,2002 1342706 St. Andrew 7,620 Sq.

ft. Church PAW.

June 4, 1995 1015162 (8) 2K Greenwich Rd.

St.Andrew 3R3428P Church P.A.W.


May 29, 2000 1325957 House Part B-Lands for Which No Documents ofRegistered Titles Exists Name of Property Parish Quantity of Land Purpose of Use Particulars of such infonnation as exist Dublin Castle St. Mary Y2 acre Church (2) Hope Bay Portland 13.

1 Perches Church Indenture of Conveyance dated May 5, 1975 from Luther (Brainerd) Black to P.A.
W Registered in the Record Office June 5, 1975 liber new series 2209 Folio 365 Unrecorded Conveyance dated Dec. 15, 1966 from Ceclin Gertrude Brown to Moses Cyrenius Gayle-Trustee ofP.A.W (in­ cludes a surveyor's diagram) (3) Long Hill Westmoreland 1 square Church Unrecorded Conveyance dated June 11, ] 986 from Daniel and Mae Fear to PAW -..J (4) Somerton St. James 1,122.12m Church (5) Roehampton St. James Church (6) TryaU Heights St. Catherine (7) Riversdale (8) Newlands st. Catherine st. Catherine Church Church Church Conveyance dated Oct. 28, 1957 from Lionel Anderson to Nonnan Walters and J. Westmoreland-Trustees of P.A.
W Receipt ofsale dated Dec. 1, 1952 from James H. Bowen to Harry Doman, James Bowen and Levy Ramsey-Trustees for PAW.

Also a Surveyor's diagram of the Property Agreement for Sale dated March 25, 1987 between MOH and P.A.W No Document.
No Document Part B-Lands for Which No Documents ofRegistered Titles Exists Name of Property Parish Quantity of Land Purpose of Use Particulars of such information as exist (9) Banana Ground Manchester (10) Kensham Manchester (11) Dromilly Trelawny 1 Square Church Church Church (12) Springfield St. Elizabeth I Rood Church (13) Santa Cruz St. Elizabeth (14) Chester St. Ann 1 Square Church Church (15) Mount Moriah St. Ann Y.t acre Church (16) Liberty St. Ann Church No Document No Document Unrecorded Indenture of Conveyance dated Sept. 27, 1975 from Bishop W. G. Brown to Norman Walters-Trustees for P.A.W Unrecorded Indenture of Conveyance dated Aug. 3 1, 1988 from A Iton Barrington Cameron and Ezra Farquharson to P.A.W No Document Unrecorded Indenture of Conveyance dated May 13, 1965 from David Samuel Moffat to Norman Walters and Prince Wright- Trustees for PAW (Includes Surveyor's Diagram) Conveyance dated June 25, 1955 from Ellis Walters to Curtis Reid and Norman Walters-Trustees for P.A.W.
Unrecorded Indenture of Convyance dated Oct. 10, 1997 from Sydney Hall to Uriah Archer-Trustee for P.A.

W 00 (17) Watt Town St. Ann Church No Document A BILL EN1l1LED AN ACT to Amend the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World of Jamaica (Incorporation and Vesting) Law.

PRlNTED BY JAMAlCA PRlNTING SERVlCES (1992) LTD" (GOVERNMENT PRlNTERS), DUKE STREET, KINGSTON, JAMAICA