1973 Bill Pro 13 Second Session, 17th Legislature, 21 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL Pre 13

An Act to amend

an Act to Incorporate the Mennonite Brethren In ChristChurch MR. DOAN First Reading Second Reading . Third Reading . Printed by QUEEN'S PRINTER for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON

BillPr.13 Mr. Doan BILL Pr.13 1973

AN ACT TO AMEND

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MENNONITE BRETHREN IN CHRIST CHURCH (Assented to , 1973)

Preamble

WHEREAS United Missionary Church, formerly known 1927, c. 81

Long title amended

Preamble amended Amends s. 1 Amends s. 5 Executive Board as The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, has presented a petition praying for the amendment of the Act of in00rpor­ ation of the said Church, being

chapter 81 'Of the Statutes of of Alberta, 1927; and

WHEREAS it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said Petition:

NOW THEREFORE Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1.

An Act to incorporate the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, being

chapter 81 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1927, is hereby amended. 2. The

long title is struck out and the following title is substituted: THE MISSIONARY CHURCH ACT 3. The

preamble is amended by striking out the word "United" wherever it occurs.

Section 1 is amended by striking out the words "Men­ nonite Brethren in Christ Church" and by substituting the words "Missionary Church".

Section 5 is struck out and the following is substituted: 5.

(1) The affairs of the Church shall be managed and adminis,tered by an Executive Board consisting of five mem­ bers two of whom shall be the chairman and treasurer of the Annual Conference of the Church in Alberta and the others to be elected by the members of the Church at each Annual Conference.

(2) A majority of the Executive Board shall constitute a quorum.

Explanatory Notes I. This Bill will amend

chapter 81 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1927. 2. The present

long title is "An Act to Incorporate the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church". 3. The recitals originally referred ,to the '~Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church" but in 1948 those 'references were changed to "United Mis'sionary Church". The amendm'ent is made here to cor­ respond with the new name for the church, i.e., "Missionary Church".

Section 1 is the incorporating section. When rthe name of the Church was changed in 1948 this provision was iIlJadvertently left unamended.

Section 5 presently reads: 5 The affairs of the Church shall be managed and administered by a Board of five trustees, two of whom shall be the Chairman and Treasure,r of the Annual Conference of the Church in Alberta and three others 1:10 be elected by the members of the Church at each Annual Con­ ference. Three members shall constItute a quorum.

Repeals s. 6 Amends s. 11 Commence­ ment

Section 6 is struck out.

Section 11, subsection (2) is amended by striking out the words "the Trustees" and by substituting the words "the Executive Board". 8. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2

Section 6 presently reads: 6.

The Reverend Alvin Traub and MeJanohthon Shantz, both of Dids­ bury, in the Province 01 Alberta, Chairman and Treasurer respectively of ,the Conference of the Church in Alberta, by virtue 01 their said offi.ces of Chairman and Treasurer aforesaid, and their successors in office, the Reverend Clifford Hallman and Theodore Reist, both of Dids­ bury, ALberta, and NOll"man Betzner Snyder, of Carstairs, Alberta, being the present Truste,es of the Church, Shllill continue as' the Trustees of the Church until the ho1ding of the Firs't Annual Conference of the Church, when a Board of Trustees shall be elected to hold office until the ne:x.t Annual Conference of the Church, and so on from year to year. 7.

The amendment is made as a consequence of the new

section 5 enacted by this Bill. 2 Title: 1973 (17th, 2nd) Bill Pr13,

An Act to amend

An Act to Incorporate The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church