Version No. 001
Melbourne Orphanage Act 1940
Act No. 4743/1940
Version as at 14 February 2000
table of provisions
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1.Short title
2.Extension of objects of Melbourne Orphanage
3.Application of existing funds to extended objects
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1. General Information
2. Table of Amendments
3. Explanatory Details
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Version No. 001
Melbourne Orphanage Act 1940
Act No. 4743/1940
Version as at 14 February 2000
An Act to extend the Objects of the Melbourne Orphanage to the Maintenance of Destitute Children other than Orphans.
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Act No. 4743/1940
Melbourne Orphanage Act 1940
Preamble
WHEREAS by Order in Council of the first day of March One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five[1] made under an Act passed in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act for Hospitals and Charitable Institutions" the contributors for the time being to the institution established for the maintenance of destitute orphans and known as and designated the Melbourne Orphan Asylum were declared to be a body politic and corporate by the style and title of the Melbourne Orphan Asylum:
AND WHEREAS under the provisions of section fifty-four of the Hospitals and Charities Act 1922 the said Melbourne Orphan Asylum with the approval of the Charities Board of Victoria and with the sanction of the majority of the contributors for the time being changed its corporate name to Melbourne Orphanage:
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the objects of the Melbourne Orphanage so as to include therein the maintenance of destitute children other than orphans as well as destitute orphan children and to provide for the application of the funds and properties of the said Melbourne Orphanage to the objects of the said Melbourne Orphanage as so extended:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):
1.Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Melbourne Orphanage Act 1940.
2.Extension of objects of Melbourne Orphanage
The objects of the Melbourne Orphanage are hereby extended so as to apply to destitute children whether orphans or not in all respects as they applied to destitute orphan children immediately before the commencement of this Act.
3.Application of existing funds to extended objects
All funds and properties of the Melbourne Orphanage shall, notwithstanding anything in any general or special trust created or arising before the commencement of this Act, be applicable to and with respect to destitute children whether orphans or not to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as those funds and properties were applicable to and with respect to destitute orphan children immediately before such commencement.
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ENDNOTES
1.General Information
Endnotes
The Melbourne Orphanage Act 1940 was assented to on 30September 1940 and came into operation on 30September 1940.
2.Table of Amendments
Endnotes
There are no amendments made to the Melbourne Orphanage Act 1940 by Acts and subordinate instruments.
3.Explanatory Details
Endnotes
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[1] Preamble: Government Gazette 5 March 1875 page 400.