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Cancellation of registration if building disused

Cap. 174, s. 23 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) If, at any time subsequent to the registration of a building, it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that the building has been disused for the public religious worship of the congregation on whose behalf it is registered under this Act, he shall cause the registration thereof to be cancelled. (2) If it is proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that the same congregation use instead thereof some other building for the purposes of public worship, he may substitute and register the new place of worship in the place of the disused 17 (3) Every application for cancelling the registration of a disused building, or for the substitution and registration of a substituted building, shall be made to the Registrar General, and the cancellation or substitution when made and the date thereof shall be entered in the book provided for the registration of those (4) The Registrar General shall certify and publish every such cancellation or substitution in manner hereinbefore provided in the case of the original registration of the building which has become disused. (5) For every substitution, the Registrar General shall demand and receive at the time of the delivery of the certificate from the party requiring the substitution the sum of two dollars and fifty cents. (6) After the cancellation or substitution has been made by the Registrar General, no banns of matrimony shall be published in the disused building unless it is again registered in the manner provided in section 20.
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