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PART 9 - United Church 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. PART 10 - Reservation of Rights 73. 74. ENDNOTES Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (2026 Revision) PART 1 - Introductory\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_1\", \"num\": \"1.\", \"text\": \"Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_2\", \"num\": \"2.\", \"text\": \"Definition 2. In this Act \u2014 \u201cIslands\u201d mean the Cayman Islands. PART 2 - Agape Family Worship Centre\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_3\", \"num\": \"3.\", \"text\": \"Definitions in this Part 3. In this Part \u2014 \u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under the name of the Agape Family Worship Centre; and \u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 4. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_4\", \"num\": \"4.\", \"text\": \"Constitution of corporation 4. (1) The persons collectively holding the offices of Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer within the corporation and any other persons appointed to the board of the corporation, in such manner as the corporation determines in its documented bye-laws, and who are also members, are declared and appointed a corporation or body corporate to have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the name of the Agape Family Worship Centre and possessed of a corporate seal, if the corporation elects to have a seal, and by that name may sue and be sued in all Courts in the Islands. (2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancy in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1) or by any defect in the appointment of any person to any such office. (3) The seal of the corporation, if the corporation elects to have one, shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine. (4) On the recording in the Public Recorder Office of a certificate under the seal of the corporation, if the corporation elects to have a seal, the person named in the certificate shall be deemed to be the holder of the office named on the certificate until the recording or lodging of a certificate of the resignation or termination of the said appointee or the appointment of another person to such office.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_5\", \"num\": \"5.\", \"text\": \"Repealed 5. Repealed by s.3 of the Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Act, 2025 [Act 7 of 2025].\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_6\", \"num\": \"6.\", \"text\": \"Non-liability of members 6. No member of the corporation shall be in any way personally responsible as such or as a trustee of any of the lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels or effects for the time being vested in the corporation, for or in respect of any debt due, owing or accruing, or hereafter to accrue, upon or in reference to such trust property, nor for any involuntary loss suffered by the corporation or any member thereof, nor for more money than shall come into that member\u2019s hands, nor for any injury which may be done by others to the said trust property or any part or parts thereof.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_7\", \"num\": \"7.\", \"text\": \"Powers to make rules 7. (1) In respect of all matters within the province or discretion, or subject to the election, decision, control or management of the corporation or the members thereof it shall be lawful for the corporation in a meeting, from time to time, to make such rules in harmony with the purposes of the corporation as may be deemed desirable \u2014 (a) for convening and adjourning the meetings of the corporation; (b) for conducting its business; Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (c) for carrying into effect the trust and powers vested in or conferred upon the corporation; (d) for recording its proceedings; and (e) generally for the carrying out of the objects of the corporation, and to revoke, alter, add or modify all or any of such rules, and all rules in force shall be binding on the members of the corporation. (2) Until and except as such rules shall be so made and in force and subject thereto, in all cases of a difference of opinion, the decision of an absolute majority of the members for the time being of the corporation shall be deemed to be the decision or act of the corporation.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_8\", \"num\": \"8.\", \"text\": \"Power of corporation 8. The corporation shall have power to \u2014 (a) acquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and hereditaments whatsoever whether registered at the Land Registry with absolute or provisional title or in fee simple, for leasehold or for any other estate or interest therein, and all property, real personal or mixed; (b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or vested, or any part thereof; (c) borrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be thought fit and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged upon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested in the corporation, and to redeem and pay off such securities; and (d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period, for such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of attorney, and to revoke any such appointment.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_9\", \"num\": \"9.\", \"text\": \"Church property vested in corporation 9. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the Islands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church or are held in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on behalf of the Church by the officials, ministers or members of the Church, or any of them, are transferred to and vested in the corporation, their successors and assigns subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights, reservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof. (2) All property real and personal in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise given to the said Church or any person for the benefit of the Church, shall be vested in and shall be deemed to be the property of the said corporation. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (3)  The following is the list of lands and hereditaments that are the subject of subsection (1) \u2014 Registration Section Block Parcel South Sound 15C 24REM1 (4)  The corporation is not liable for the debts or liabilities of any subsidiary companies or any companies in which the corporation may have shares unless specifically contracted otherwise in writing by the corporation.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_10\", \"num\": \"10.\", \"text\": \"Trusts upon which property held 10. All property real and personal hereby vested in or which may hereafter at any time be acquired by or become vested in the corporation shall be held, occupied, possessed and enjoyed upon trust for and for the benefit of or connected with or incidental to the Church.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_11\", \"num\": \"11.\", \"text\": \"Power to dispose of property 11. The corporation may, from time to time, as may be deemed desirable, sell and dispose of, transfer, exchange, lease, rent out or convey any lands, hereditaments, buildings, goods, chattels or effects for the time being vested in the corporation \u2014 Provided that no land, hereditaments, buildings or real property shall be sold, disposed of, exchanged or conveyed, or leased or rented for any term longer than from year to year without the express concurrence and approval of a majority of the elders of the Church.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_12\", \"num\": \"12.\", \"text\": \"Application of proceeds of property 12. All rents, issues and profits of the lands and hereditaments vested in or acquired by the corporation and all proceeds of such of them as shall be sold or exchanged shall be paid to the Treasurer of the corporation for the purposes of the Church in the Islands. 12A. Assets and Income of the Agape Family Worship Centre 12A. (1) The assets and income of the corporation shall be applied exclusively in the furtherance of the purposes of the corporation and no portion of the assets and income of the corporation shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or indirectly to any member of the corporation, unless the distribution is intended for the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the activities of the corporation or paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the corporation. (2)  Nothing in this section shall prevent the payment, in good faith, of \u2014 Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (a)  reasonable and proper remuneration to any officer or employee of the corporation or to any member of the corporation, in return for any services actually rendered to the corporation; (b)  the payment of interest on money lent by any member of the corporation at a rate per year \u2014 (i)  not exceeding two per cent less than the base lending rate prescribed for the time being by a clearing bank selected by the committee or three per cent, whichever is greater; or (ii)  at a normal commercial rate; or (c)  reasonable and proper rent for premises demised or let by any member of the corporation or of its board of officers for the purposes of the corporation. (3)  Any money raised by the corporation or the Church shall be applied to the specific purpose for which it was raised and such purposes may include the charitable aid of a member of the Church. (4)  For the purposes of this section, \u201cofficer\u201d means any person appointed to the board of officers of the Corporation. PART 3 - Anglican Church of the Cayman Islands\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_13\", \"num\": \"13.\", \"text\": \"Definitions and interpretation in this Part 13. (1) In this Part \u2014 \u201cChurch\u201d means the Anglican Church in the Islands and includes its successors and any body for the time being exercising its functions; \u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 15; \u201cChurch Committee\u201d means the Church Committee as constituted under the Constitution and Canons of the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies and includes the Advisory Committee or Committees nominated by the superintending clergy in accordance with the byelaws made under the Constitution and Rules of the Jamaica Church Missionary Society; and \u201cCouncil\u201d means the Council established under section 14. (2) In this Act, reference to \u201cthe Bishop\u201d, \u201cthe Diocesan Secretary\u201d, \u201cthe Chancellor\u201d, \u201cthe Chairperson of the Financial Board\u201d and \u201cthe Suffragan Bishops\u201d shall be construed in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_14\", \"num\": \"14.\", \"text\": \"Constitution of Council 14. (1) There shall be a council consisting of not less than eight nor more than ten persons and shall include the Bishop, the Chancellor, the Chairperson of the Financial Board, the Diocesan Secretary, the Suffragan Bishops, the Superintending clergy of the Church and two members of the Church resident in the Islands and selected in the manner most acceptable to the Church. (2) The Chairperson of the Council shall be the Bishop or the Chairperson\u2019s nominee, and a quorum of the Council shall be such number as the Council may fix from time to time. (3) At meetings of the Council all matters shall be determined by a simple majority vote and a decision or resolution of Council shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the decision of a simple majority of the members of Council for the time being. (4) In any case in which voting is equal, the Chairperson shall, in addition to an original vote, have a casting vote. (5) Subject to subsection (3), the Council shall have the power to regulate its own procedure.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_15\", \"num\": \"15.\", \"text\": \"Constitution of body corporate 15. (1) There is constituted for the purposes set forth in this Part a corporation or body politic consisting of five persons namely \u2014 (a) the Bishop, the Diocesan Secretary for the time being of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies and the Reverend Weevil Gordon, or the person who, for the time being, is the senior superintending clergy of the Church, and (b) two members of the Church resident in the Islands, who shall be selected in the manner most acceptable to the Church, and the Council may appoint the successors of such members of the corporation as vacancies occur, whether by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, as soon as may be found convenient after such vacancy occurs. (2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancy in the body or in any of the offices in subsection (1), or by any defect in the appointment of any person to any such office. (3) The fact that any vacancy exists at any time among the members of the corporation shall not affect the continuance of the corporation. (4) The corporation shall have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the name of \u201cThe Anglican Church in the Cayman Islands\u201d and by that name may sue or be sued, plead and be impleaded in all Courts of law or equity. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (5) No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any force or validity unless sealed with the seal of the corporation and signed by three members, two of whom shall be from among those in the category listed in paragraph (a) of section 15(1).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_16\", \"num\": \"16.\", \"text\": \"Removal of members 16. Save and except the Bishop and Diocesan Secretary, the Council may, without cause and without giving any reason, remove any of the other three members of the corporation and substitute another or others.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_17\", \"num\": \"17.\", \"text\": \"Non-liability of members 17. No member of the corporation shall be in any way personally responsible as such, or as a trustee of any of the lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels or effects, for the time being vested in the corporation, for or in respect of any debt due, owing or accruing or hereafter to accrue, upon or in reference to such trust property nor for any involuntary loss suffered by the corporation or any member thereof, nor for money that shall come into that member\u2019s hands, nor for any injury which may be done by others to the said trust property or any part of parts thereof.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_18\", \"num\": \"18.\", \"text\": \"Common seal 18. The corporation shall have a common seal which shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine; and it shall be lawful for the corporation to break, alter or renew the said seal as it thinks proper.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_19\", \"num\": \"19.\", \"text\": \"Power to make rules 19. In respect of all matters within the discretion, or subject to the election, decision, control or management of the corporation or the members thereof, it shall be lawful for the corporation in a meeting, from time to time to make such rules, in harmony with the purposes of the corporation, as may be deemed desirable \u2014 (a) for convening and adjourning the meetings of the corporation; (b) for conducting its business; (c) for carrying into effect the trusts and powers vested in or conferred upon the corporation; (d) for recording its proceedings; and (e) generally for the carrying out of the objects of the corporation, and to revoke, alter, add or modify all or any such rules and all rules in force shall be binding on the members of the corporation.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_20\", \"num\": \"20.\", \"text\": \"Temporary provisions 20. Until such rules are made and in force, and subject thereto \u2014 Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (a) the Bishop, and in the Bishop\u2019s absence the Diocesan Secretary, shall be the convener with full powers as such; and in the absence of both, any member of the corporation may be the convener; (b) in all cases of a difference of opinion, the decision of a simple majority of the members for the time being of the corporation shall be deemed to be the decision or act of the corporation; and (c) members may, in cases where personal attendance can be dispensed with, express their opinion in writing addressed to the convener, and the opinion so expressed may be recorded as the vote of the absentee member.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_21\", \"num\": \"21.\", \"text\": \"Vesting of property 21. (1) The lands and hereditaments mentioned or referred to in subsection (3) and all estate and interest of all and every and any of the grantees named in the several deeds or entered as proprietors in the Register of Lands of the Islands mentioned in subsection (3), their heirs and assigns of and in the lands and hereditaments by such deeds or transfers or entered in such Register or any of them vested in or granted to such grantees or such proprietors of any of them for any estate or interest, or mentioned so to be, and all other lands and hereditaments, if any, and all goods, chattels, and personal property in the Islands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies are held in trust for the purposes of the said body or are now held possessed, used, occupied or enjoyed on behalf of the Church or as Church property by the Church, or by the officials, ministers or members of the Church, or any of them, or by any person or persons holding under such officials, ministers or members, of any of them, are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, its successors and assigns, subject to such rights, mortgages, charges, trusts or encumbrances and reservations, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof. (2) All property real and personal in the Islands devised or bequeathed by will or otherwise given to the Church or to any person for the benefit of the Church shall be held by, is vested in, and shall be deemed to be the property of the corporation. (3) The following is the list of lands and hereditaments the subject of subsection (1) \u2014 Registration Section Block Parcel Cayman Brac Central 99A Cayman Brac Central 99A George Town Central 13D George Town Central 13D Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) George Town Central 13D George Town Central 13D\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_22\", \"num\": \"22.\", \"text\": \"Powers of corporation 22. (1) The corporation has power for the benefit and purposes of the Church or for any special purpose or purposes of or connected with the work of the Church in the Islands any lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects or real or personal property, or any estate or interest therein to \u2014 (a) acquire by purchase, transfer, donation, exchange, devise, bequest, grant, gift, conveyance or otherwise; (b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or any part thereof; (c) receive money on loan and borrow, raise or secure money in such manner as the corporation shall think fit and in particular by the issue of bonds, debentures or debenture stocks (perpetual or otherwise) and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed, raised, secured or owing by mortgage, charge or lien upon all or any of the property or assets of the corporation; (d) draw, make, accept, indorse, discount, excuse and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, debentures, bonds and other negotiable or transferable instruments; and (e) do all other things as the Council may, from time to time, declare and publish in two issues of the Gazette or as may be deemed incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them. (2) The objects specified in this Part and in each paragraph of subsection (1) shall be regarded as independent objects. 22A. Assets and income of the Anglican Church of the Cayman Islands 22A. The assets and income of the Church shall be applied exclusively in the furtherance of the purposes of the Church and no portion of it shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders, owners or members of the Church, unless such distribution is intended for \u2014 (a)  the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the purposes of the Church; or (b)  paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the Church. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_23\", \"num\": \"23.\", \"text\": \"Trusts upon which property held 23. (1) All lands and hereditaments vested in or which may hereafter at any time be acquired by or become vested in the corporation shall be held, occupied, possessed and enjoyed, upon such general or special trusts, and for such general or special purposes, and with and subject to such general or special powers and provisions, as shall, from time to time, in respect of all or any of such lands, be described by resolution of the Council and until and subject to such declarations, and so far as the same shall not extend, upon the trusts and for the purposes, and with and subject to the powers and provisions mentioned and set forth in subsection (2). (2) The said purposes, powers and provisions are \u2014 (a) upon trust to permit and suffer the lands and hereditaments and the erections and buildings for the time being thereon, and their appurtenances, to be used and occupied only for such purposes connected with the Church or the educational or training work of the Church, as the Council shall, from time to time, direct, appoint, sanction or approve; (b) to permit and suffer the church or place of religious worship, theological or educational training institutions, youth centres, schools, vestries, dwelling houses, offices, outrooms and other buildings and conveniences to be erected or built upon the said lands and hereditaments, or being built or erected to be enlarged, altered, improved, repaired, removed or pulled down, as and whenever the Council shall, from time to time, direct, sanction or approve; (c) to permit and suffer the church or place of religious worship for the time being upon such lands and hereditaments to be used, occupied and enjoyed solely as a place for the religious worship and service of God, and the preaching of the Gospel and expounding and teaching the Holy Scriptures, according to the doctrines and usages professed and observed by the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies in full communion with the See of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion throughout the world; (d) to permit and suffer to officiate in each church or place of worship on the said lands, and to have the conduct, direction and management, of the services, worship and teaching therein, such minister or ministers or other person or persons only as shall be thereunto for the time being duly appointed in accordance with the rules, regulations and practices of the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies or such person or persons as shall, from time to time, be thereunto requested by such minister so appointed as aforesaid; (e) to permit and suffer such dwelling house on the said lands and hereditaments as shall or may at any time be assigned as a residence for Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) the minister in charge of or connected with any chapel or mission station of the said Church, and the sub-offices and appurtenances thereof including so much land as shall be attached thereto as incident to such residence, to be used, occupied, possessed and enjoyed by the minister for the time being in charge of, appointed to or connected with, such church in accordance with such rules, regulations and practices as aforesaid, as a residence for the minister and the minister\u2019s family; (f) to permit and suffer such part of the said lands and hereditaments, if any, as may be set apart as a burial ground to be used by the minister and members of the said church \u2014 Provided that the minister or persons already in charge of any church on the said lands, or any of them as the minister thereof, shall be deemed to be so in charge by the appointment and with the approval of the church aforesaid, but that whenever any authority of the church having jurisdiction over any minister or person in charge of any such lands, shall, in the exercise of the powers committed to it, declare by any resolution or other official act any now existing or future appointment of any such minister or person in respect of the said lands, or any part thereof, or of any church at an end, such minister or person shall thereupon absolutely cease to be entitled to the privileges or benefits of the trusts aforesaid; (g) to permit every church built on such lands to be used under the authority of the Council according to the doctrines and usages professed and observed by the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies in full communion with the See of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion throughout the world, and also to permit and suffer every such church building and the lands associated with the church to be supervised and maintained by the church committee provided nevertheless that the Council shall have the final authority in all matters relating to such churches; and (h) to permit and suffer every school, training institution, youth centre and other facility built on such lands to be used under the authority of the Council according to the doctrine and usages professed and observed by the body known as the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies in full communion with the See of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion throughout the world, and also to permit and suffer every such abovementioned institution to be superintended only by such committee as shall be duly approved by the Council, provided nevertheless that the Council shall have the final authority in all matters referring to such institutions as mentioned above \u2014 Provided also that it shall be lawful for the corporation, in the manner and under the circumstances, and to the extent and subject to the limitations and with the sanction or approvals provided or required by the law incorporating it but not Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) otherwise, to convey and assure, sell or exchange, or lease or otherwise deal with the said lands, hereditaments and premises, or any of them or any part thereof.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_24\", \"num\": \"24.\", \"text\": \"Power to appoint attorney 24. It shall be lawful for the corporation, from time to time when and as it may be deemed necessary or advisable, by deed to appoint a person or persons as the attorney or attorneys of the corporation, or of the members thereof, either generally, for a limited period or on specified conditions and without limiting the generality of the foregoing to \u2014 (a) take possession or care of, or manage or collect the rents of any property real or personal for the time being vested, or claimed to be vested, in the corporation; (b) enforce or carry into effect the trust or provisions affecting or relating to any such property real or personal; and (c) carry out the directions of the members of the corporation or the Council in respect of the same trust premises, or any of them, and such appointments and powers of attorney may, from time to time, at the corporation\u2019s pleasure, be revoked and determined by deed.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_25\", \"num\": \"25.\", \"text\": \"Power to dispose of property 25. (1) The corporation may, from time to time, as may be deemed desirable, sell and dispose of, transfer, exchange, lease, rent out or convey any lands, hereditaments, buildings, goods, chattels or effects for the time being vested in the corporation. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), no land, hereditaments, buildings or real property shall be sold, disposed of, exchanged or conveyed, or leased or rented for any term longer than from year to year without the express concurrence and approval of the Council.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_26\", \"num\": \"26.\", \"text\": \"Application of proceeds of property 26. All rents, issues and profits of the lands and hereditaments vested in or acquired by the corporation, and all proceeds of such of them as shall be sold or exchanged, shall be paid to the Council for the purposes of the Church in the Islands. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_27\", \"num\": \"27.\", \"text\": \"Reference of questions and disputes to Council 27. In all cases of any questions or disputes in reference to the trusts, powers or provisions affecting any lands or hereditaments vested in or claimed to be vested in the corporation, or the exercise or enforcement thereof, or in reference to the doctrines or usages of the Church in relation to any such lands, or the occupancy, charge or superintendence thereof, or any trusts or provisions affecting the same, or in reference to the members of the corporation, or in reference to the right of any minister or person to occupy or of any board or committee to superintend, or take or keep charge of any such lands or hereditaments, or any part thereof, or any buildings thereon, the same shall be referred to the Council, and its decision thereon shall be absolutely binding and conclusive as to such question or dispute.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_28\", \"num\": \"28.\", \"text\": \"Evidence of acts 28. For the purposes of this Part, any resolution, decision or document purporting to be signed by the Chairperson and the Secretary of Council and purporting to be proved by a voluntary declaration of such (as the case may be) shall be prima facie evidence of the official status of the parties signing the same, and also of the facts therein stated, in all Courts of and elsewhere in the Islands. PART 4 - Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_29\", \"num\": \"29.\", \"text\": \"Definitions in this Part 29. In this Part \u2014 \u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under the name of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists including its successors and any body for the time being exercising its functions; and \u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 30.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_30\", \"num\": \"30.\", \"text\": \"Creation of corporation and officers thereof 30. (1) The persons holding the office of President, Executive Secretary, Chief Financial Officer and any other persons who are appointed to the Executive Committee are hereby declared to be a corporation, and each person holding such office or so appointed shall be a member of the corporation. (1A) The corporation shall have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the name of \u201cthe Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists\u201d and possessed of a corporate seal, if the corporation elects to have a seal, and by that name may sue and be sued in all courts in the Cayman Islands. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (1B) No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any force or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal, if the corporation elects to have a seal, and signed by any two of the persons listed below \u2014 (a)  President of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; (b)  Executive Secretary of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; or (c)  the Chief Financial Officer of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventhday Adventists. (2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancy in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1) or by any defect in the appointment of any person to any such office. (3) The seal of the corporation, if the corporation elects to have a seal, shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine. (4) Upon the recording in the Public Records Office a certificate under the seal of the corporation, if the corporation elects to have a seal, and appointment of any person to any office mentioned in subsection (1), the person named in such a certificate shall be deemed to be the holder of the office named therein until the recording or lodging of a certificate of the appointment of another person to such office.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_31\", \"num\": \"31.\", \"text\": \"Signing officers of corporation 31. No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any force or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal and signed by any two of the following, namely the President of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventhday Adventists and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and\/or the President of the West Indies Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and the Executive Secretary of the West Indies Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. 31A. Bye-laws 31A. (1) In respect of all matters within the province or discretion, or subject to the election, decision, control or management of the corporation, it shall be lawful for the Church in a meeting to agree the form of bye-laws which governs and to make such rules, in harmony with the purposes of the corporation \u2014 (a)  for convening and adjourning the meetings of the corporation; (b)  for conducting business; (c)  for carrying into effect the trust and powers vested in or conferred on the corporation; (d)  for recording its proceedings; and (e)  generally for the carrying out of the objects of the corporation, Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) and to revoke, alter add or modify all or any of the bye-laws with the approval of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. (2)  The bye-laws in force shall be binding on the members of the corporation. 31B. Liability 31B. (1) No member of the corporation shall be in any way personally responsible as such or as a trustee of any of the lands, hereditament, goods, chattels or effects for the time being vested in the corporation, for or in respect of any debt due, owing or accruing, on or in reference to such trust property, nor for any involuntary loss suffered by the corporation, nor for more money than shall come into the member\u2019s hands, nor for any injury which may be done by others to the said trust property or any parts thereof. (2)  The corporation shall not be liable for the debts or liabilities of any subsidiary companies or any companies in which the corporation may have shares unless specifically contracted otherwise in writing by the corporation.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_32\", \"num\": \"32.\", \"text\": \"Vesting of property 32. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the Islands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church or are held in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on behalf of the Church by the officials, minister or members of the Church are, if not already legally registered in the name of the Church, transferred to and vested in the corporation, their successors and assigns subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights, reservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof. (2) All real property and personal property in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise given to the Church or to any person for the benefit of the Church, shall be vested in and shall be deemed to be the property of the corporation. (3)  The following is the real property which is the subject of subsection (2) \u2014 Registration Section Block Parcel West Bay North West 4B West Bay North 4D George Town South 14E George Town South 14E George Town South 14E Spotts 24E Spotts 24E Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) Savannah 27B Savannah 27B Savannah 27B Savannah 28B Bodden Town 44B Bodden Town 44B North Side 49B Midland East 54D Midland East 54D Midland East 54D North Side 57E East End 72C Cayman Brac Central 104A Cayman Brac East 109B\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_33\", \"num\": \"33.\", \"text\": \"Powers of corporation 33. The corporation shall have power for the benefit and purposes of the Church or for any special purpose or purposes of or connected with the work of the Church in the Islands, with respect to any lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects or seal or personal property, or any estate or interest therein to \u2014 (a) acquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and hereditaments whatsoever in fee simple, for leasehold, or for any other estate or interest therein, and all property, real, personal or mixed; (b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or vested, or any part thereof; (c) borrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be thought fit, and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged upon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested in the corporation, and to redeem and pay off such securities; and (d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period, for such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of attorney, and to revoke any such appointment. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) 33A. Assets and income of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 33A. (1) The assets and income of the corporation shall be applied exclusively in the furtherance of the purposes of the corporation and no portion of the assets and income of the corporation shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or indirectly to any member of the corporation, unless such distribution is intended for the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the activities of the corporation or paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the corporation. (2)  Nothing in this section shall prevent the payment, in good faith, of \u2014 (a)  reasonable and proper remuneration to any officer or employee of the corporation or to any member of the corporation, in return for any services rendered to the corporation; (b)  interest on money lent by any member of the corporation or any officer of the corporation at a rate per year \u2014 (i)  not exceeding two per cent less than the base lending rate prescribed for the time being by a clearing bank selected by the Executive Committee or three per cent, whichever is greater; or (ii)  at a normal commercial rate; or (c)  reasonable and proper rent for premises demised or let by any member of the corporation or of its board of officers. PART 5 - Church of God (Universal)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_34\", \"num\": \"34.\", \"text\": \"Definitions in this Part 34. In this Part \u2014 \u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under the name of the Church of God (Universal); and \u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 35.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_35\", \"num\": \"35.\", \"text\": \"Creation of corporation of officers thereof 35. (1) The following persons, namely Robert James Arch, Executive Pastor, Hope Dorothy Ethlyn Glidden-Borden, the Secretary in the Islands and Sarah Lois Arch, the Treasurer in the Islands and their successors for the time being in the respective offices of Executive Pastor in the Islands, Secretary in the Islands and Treasurer in the Islands are hereby declared, constituted and appointed a corporation or body corporate to have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the name of \u201cThe Church of God (Universal)\u201d and possessed of a corporate seal and by that name may sue and be sued in all Courts in the Islands. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancies in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1) or by any defect in the appointment of any person to any such office. (3) The seal of the corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine. (4) Upon the recording in the Public Records Office of a certificate under the seal of the corporation of the appointment of any person to any office mentioned in subsection (1), the person named in such certificate shall be deemed to be the holder of the office named therein until the recording or lodging of a certificate of the appointment of another person to such office.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_36\", \"num\": \"36.\", \"text\": \"Signing officers of corporation 36. No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any force or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal and signed by any two of the following, namely the Executive Pastor in the Islands, Treasurer in the Islands and Secretary in the Islands.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_37\", \"num\": \"37.\", \"text\": \"Vesting of property 37. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the Islands which are now legally or equitable the property of the Church or are held in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on behalf of the Church by the officials, ministers or members of the Church or any of them or by any person holding under such officials, ministers or members or any of them are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, its successors and assigns subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights, reservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof. (2) All property real and personal in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise given to the Church or any person for the benefit of the Church shall be held by, is vested in and shall be deemed to be the property of the said corporation. (3)  The following is the real property which is the subject of subsection (2) \u2014 Registration Section Block Parcel George Town South 14E George Town South 14E George Town Central 14BH Savannah 28D Lower Valley 32B East End 72C Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_38\", \"num\": \"38.\", \"text\": \"Powers of corporation 38. (1) The corporation shall have power to \u2014 (a) acquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and hereditaments whatsoever in fee simple for leasehold, or for any other estate or interest therein, and all property, real, personal or mixed; (b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with, all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or vested or any part thereof; (c) borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be thought fit and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged upon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested in the corporation and to redeem and pay off such securities; and (d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period, for such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of attorney, and to revoke any such appointment. (2)  The assets and income of the Church shall be applied exclusively in the furtherance of the purposes of the Church and no portion of it shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders, owners or members of the Church, unless such distribution is intended for \u2014 (a)  the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the activities of the Church; or (b)  paying for expense incurred on behalf of the Church. PART 6 - New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_39\", \"num\": \"39.\", \"text\": \"Definitions in this Part 39. In this Part \u2014 \u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under the name of the New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands; and \u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 40. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_40\", \"num\": \"40.\", \"text\": \"Creation of corporation and officers thereof 40. (1) The following persons, namely Michael Kraus, District Apostle, Erwin Wagner, Apostle and George Meisinger, District Rector and their successors for the time being in the respective offices of District Apostle, Apostle and District Rector in the Islands are hereby declared constituted and appointed a corporation or body corporate to have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the name of \u201cThe New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands\u201d and possessed of a corporate seal and by that name may sue and be sued in all Courts in the Islands. (2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancy in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1), or by any defect in the appointment of any person to any such office. (3) The seal of the corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine. (4) Upon the recording in the Public Records Office of a certificate under the seal of the corporation of the appointment of any person to any office mentioned in subsection (1), the person named in such certificate shall be deemed to be the holder of the office named therein until the recording or lodging of a certificate of the appointment of another person to such office.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_41\", \"num\": \"41.\", \"text\": \"Signing officers of corporation 41. No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any force or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal and signed by any two of the following, namely the District Apostle, Apostle and District Rector in the Islands.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_42\", \"num\": \"42.\", \"text\": \"Vesting of property 42. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the Islands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church or are held in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on behalf of the Church by the officials, ministers, Apostles, Rectors or members of the Church or any of them or by any person holding under such officials, ministers, Apostles, Rectors or members or any of them are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, their successors and assigns subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights, reservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof. (2) All property, real and personal in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise, given to the said Church or any person for the benefit of the Church, shall be held by, is vested in and shall be deemed to be the property of the said corporation. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_43\", \"num\": \"43.\", \"text\": \"Powers of corporation 43. The corporation shall have power to \u2014 (a) acquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and hereditaments whatsoever in fee simple, for leasehold, or for any other estate or interest therein, and all property, real, personal or mixed; (b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or vested, or any part thereof; (c) borrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be thought fit and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged upon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested in the corporation and to redeem and pay off such securities; and (d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period, and for such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of attorney, and to revoke any such appointment. PART 7 - New Testament Church of God\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_44\", \"num\": \"44.\", \"text\": \"Definitions in this Part 44. In this Part \u2014 \u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under the name of the New Testament Church of God; and \u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 45.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_45\", \"num\": \"45.\", \"text\": \"Creation of corporation and officers thereof 45. (1) The  following persons, namely Eitel Nathaniel Morris (Administrative Bishop), Elaine Jacqueline Willis (Secretary\/Treasurer), Clovis Hugh George Wilks (Executive Board Member), Richard Cornelius Fraser (Executive Board Member) are declared constituted and appointed a corporation or body corporate to have continuance forever and perpetual succession by name of \u201cThe New Testament Church of God\u201d possessed of a corporate seal and by that name may sue and be sued in all courts in the Islands. (2) No act or proceeding or the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancy in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1) or by any defect in the appointment of any person to any such office. (3) The seal of the corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (4) Upon the recording in the Public Records Office of a certificate under the seal of the corporation of the appointment of any person to any office mentioned in subsection (1), the person named in such a certificate shall be deemed to be the holder of the office named therein until the recording or lodging of a certificate of the appointment of another person to such office.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_46\", \"num\": \"46.\", \"text\": \"Signing officers of corporation 46. No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be valid unless it is sealed with the corporate seal and signed by the Administrative Bishop and any two of the following persons \u2014 (a)  the Secretary\/Treasurer in the Islands; or (b)  a member of the Executive Board in the Islands.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_47\", \"num\": \"47.\", \"text\": \"Vesting of property 47. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the Islands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church or are held in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on behalf of the Church by the officials, ministers or members of the Church or any of them or by any person holding under such officials, ministers or members or any of them are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, their successors and assigns subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights, reservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof. (2) All property real and personal in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise, given to the said Church or any person for the benefit of the Church, shall be held by, and is vested in, and deemed to be the property of the said Corporation. (3)  The following is the real property which is the subject of subsection (2) \u2014 Registration Section Block Parcel West Bay North West 1C George Town Central 14BG George Town South 14E George Town South 14E George Town East 19E George Town East 19E George Town East 19E High Rock 68A Cayman Brac West 96D Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (4)  The assets and income of the Church shall be applied exclusively in the furtherance of the purposes of the Church. (5)  No portion of the assets and income of the Church shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders, owners or members of the Church unless such distribution is intended for the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the activities of the Church or paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the Church.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_48\", \"num\": \"48.\", \"text\": \"Powers of corporation 48. The corporation shall have power to \u2014 (a) acquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and hereditaments whatsoever in fees simple, for leasehold, or for any other estate or interest therein, and all property, real personal or mixed; (b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, sell, convey, transfer, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any of the property both present and future so held or vested or any part thereof; (c) borrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be thought fit, and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged upon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested in such corporation and to redeem and pay off any such securities; and (d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period, and for such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of attorney, and to revoke any such appointment. PART 8 - The Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_49\", \"num\": \"49.\", \"text\": \"Definitions in this Part 49. In this Part \u2014 \u201csuccessors in office\u201d means the persons from time to time having, by appointment by the Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical powers, authorities, duties and jurisdiction in the Islands of the Roman Catholic Church vested in the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_50\", \"num\": \"50.\", \"text\": \"Creation of corporation 50. (1) Allen H. Vigneron, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands and his successors in office shall be a corporation sole to have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the name of \u201cThe Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands\u201d and possessed of a corporate seal, and by that name may sue and be sued in all Courts of the Islands. (1A) On July 14, 2000, by determination of the Roman Pontiff\u2019s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, responsibility for the Missio sui iuris of the Cayman Islands was permanently transferred from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit, His Eminence, Adam Cardinal Maida, and his successors in office, as appointed by the Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church and on January 5, 2009, by appointment of the Roman Pontiff, His Excellency, Allen H. Vigneron, succeeded His Eminence, Adam Cardinal Maida, as Archbishop of Detroit and, consequently, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands. (2) No law or proceeding of the said corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any vacancy in the office mentioned in subsection (1) or by any defect in the appointment of any person to such office. (3) The seal of the said corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine. 50A. Application of assets and income 50A. The assets and income of the corporation shall be applied exclusively in the furtherance of the purposes of the corporation and no portion of the assets and income of the corporation shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders, owners or members of the corporation, unless the distribution is intended for \u2014 (a)  the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the activities of the corporation; or (b)  paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the corporation.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_51\", \"num\": \"51.\", \"text\": \"Vesting of property 51. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the Islands which, immediately prior to the 7th May, 1979 were legally or equitably the property of, vested in or held in trust for the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston in the Islands are transferred to and vested in the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands for the same estate and interest and to the extent to which the same were respectively held by or vested in the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston immediately prior to the 7th May, 1979 subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights, reservations or incumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (2) All property real and personal in the Islands including the property specified in subsection (3) devised or bequeathed by will, conveyed, transferred or otherwise given to the Roman Catholic Church in the Islands shall be held by and is vested in and deemed to be the property of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands. (3) The following is the property referred to in subsection (2) \u2014 Registration Section Block Parcel South Sound 7C South Sound 7C South Sound 15B Midland East 57A West Bay North West 4E West Bay North West 4E West Bay North West 4E West Bay North West 4E Cayman Brac West 96E Cayman Brac East 107A\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_52\", \"num\": \"52.\", \"text\": \"Powers of corporation 52. The corporation constituted under this Part has power to \u2014 (a) acquire, hold, purchase, receive, lease, possess and enjoy any lands or hereditaments whatsoever with absolute or provisional registered title in fee simple, leasehold or for any other estate or interest and all property real, personal or mixed; (b) give grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, mortgage, sell, convey, transfer, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise deal with all or any of the property both present and future so held or vested or any part thereof; (c) borrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be thought fit, and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged upon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested in such corporation and to redeem and pay off any such securities; and (d) appoint an attorney or attorneys for such time and purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the instrument of appointment, to revoke any such appointment and to confer on any such attorney or attorneys Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) appointed as aforesaid power to appoint a substitute in that attorney\u2019s or their stead.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_53\", \"num\": \"53.\", \"text\": \"Appointment of officer 53. On the appointment of any person to the office mentioned in section 50 the instrument of appointment or a copy thereof duly certified as such by the Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church shall be recorded in the Public Records Office.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_54\", \"num\": \"54.\", \"text\": \"Vesting of personal property 54. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, shares, stock, debentures, debenture stock, scrip, bonds or other negotiable securities issued by a company incorporated in the Islands and any bonds, stocks, funds or other negotiable securities issued by the Government of the Islands or any public body or authority municipal or local in the Islands and any personal property, the precise situation of which cannot be ascertained, hereafter bequeathed by will or otherwise given to the Roman Catholic Church in the Islands shall be deemed to be given or bequeathed to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands. PART 9 - United Church\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_55\", \"num\": \"55.\", \"text\": \"Definitions in this Part 55. In this Part \u2014 \u201cChurch\u201d means the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and includes its successors and any body or entity (by whatever name it may be called) for the time being exercising its functions; \u201cCorporation\u201d means the Cayman United Church Corporation or CUCC; and \u201cCouncil\u201d means the Cayman Islands Regional Mission Council of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and includes any body, Synod or meeting (by whatever name it may be called), which for the time being, exercises in Grand Cayman the functions of the said Council.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_56\", \"num\": \"56.\", \"text\": \"Constitution of body corporate 56. The following persons, being persons approved by the Council, namely Wentworth Lyndhurst Bodden, Vernon Lionel Jackson, Clarence Vernon Thompson, Reverend Doctor Albert Neil Banks and their successors to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned, shall be and are hereby created one corporation or body politic, to have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the name of \u201cThe Cayman United Church Corporation\u201d and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all Courts of law or equity. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_57\", \"num\": \"57.\", \"text\": \"Powers to remove members 57. The Council may, without cause and without giving any reason therefor, remove any of the members of the said body corporate and substitute another or others.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_58\", \"num\": \"58.\", \"text\": \"Appointment of successors 58. The successors of the members of the corporation, as vacancies occur amongst such members by death, resignation, removal or otherwise and as soon thereafter as may be found convenient, may be appointed by the Council \u2014 Provided that the fact of any vacancies existing at any time among the members of the corporation shall not be held to affect the continuance of the corporation.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_59\", \"num\": \"59.\", \"text\": \"Non-liability of members 59. No member of the corporation shall be in any way personally responsible as such, or as a trustee of any of the lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels or effects, for the time being vested in the corporation, for or in respect of any debt due, owing or accruing, or hereafter to accrue, upon or in reference to such trust property, nor for any involuntary loss suffered by the corporation, or any member thereof, nor for more money than shall come into that member\u2019s hands, nor for any injury which may be done by others to the said trust property or any part or parts thereof.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_60\", \"num\": \"60.\", \"text\": \"Common seal 60. The corporation shall have a common seal, with such stamp and inscription to be made thereon as the members for the time being of the corporation shall think proper to adopt; and it shall be lawful for them, from time to time, to break, alter or renew the said seal, as they shall think proper.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_61\", \"num\": \"61.\", \"text\": \"Power to make rules 61. In respect of all matters within the province or discretion, or subject to the election, decision, control or management of the corporation or the members thereof, it shall be lawful for the corporation in a meeting, from time to time, to make such rules, in harmony with the purposes of the corporation, as may be deemed desirable for \u2014 (a) convening and adjourning the meetings of the corporation; (b) conducting its business; (c) carrying into effect the trusts and powers vested in or conferred upon the corporation; (d) recording its proceedings; and (e) generally the carrying out the objects of the corporation, and to revoke, alter, add or to modify all or any of such rules and all rules in force shall be binding on the members of the corporation. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_62\", \"num\": \"62.\", \"text\": \"Temporary provisions 62. (1) Until and except as such rules shall be so made and in force, and subject thereto \u2014 (a) the senior member of the corporation shall be the convener, with full powers as such; and for this purpose the members named therein shall rank in the order named in section 56; (b) in all cases of a difference of opinion, the decision of an absolute majority of the members for the time being of the corporation shall be deemed to be the decision or act of the corporation; and (c) members may, in cases where personal attendance can be dispensed with, express their opinion in writing addressed to the convener, and the opinion so expressed may be recorded as the vote of the absentee member. (2) A decision or resolution of the Council shall, for the purposes of this Part, be deemed to be the decision or resolution of an absolute majority of the members of Council for the time being.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_63\", \"num\": \"63.\", \"text\": \"Church property vested in corporation 63. (1) The lands and hereditaments mentioned or referred to in subsection (2) and all the estate and interest of all and every and any of the grantees named in the several deeds or entered as proprietors in the Register of Lands of the Islands mentioned in subsection (2), their heirs and assigns of and in the lands and hereditaments by such deeds or transfers or entered in such Register or any of them vested in or granted to such grantees or such proprietors or any of them, for any estate or interest, or mentioned so to be, and all other lands and hereditaments, if any, and all goods, chattels and personal property in the Islands which are now legally or equitably the property of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, the Jamaica Presbyterian Corporation or the Church or are held in trust for the purposes of the said bodies or are now held possessed, used, occupied or enjoyed on behalf of the Church or as Church property by the Church or by the officials, ministers or members of the Church, or any of them, or by any person or persons holding under such officials, ministers or members, or any of them, are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, their successors and assigns, subject to such rights, mortgages, charges, trusts or encumbrances and reservations, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof. (2) The following is the list of lands and hereditaments the subject of subsection (1) \u2014 Registration Section Block Parcel George Town Commercial 5B West Bay South 5B Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) West Bay South 5C George Town Commercial OPY George Town Central 14BH 150REM1 South Sound 15B South Sound 15B South Sound 15E George Town East 20D George Town East 20E Prospect 22D George Town East 23C George Town East 23C George Town East 23C Prospect 23C George Town East 23C George Town East 23C George Town East 23C Savannah 28D Savannah 28D Savannah 28D Lower Valley 32B Lower Valley 38D Lower Valley 38E Bodden Town 44B Bodden Town 44B Bodden Town 44B North Side 49C North Side 72C East End 72C East End 72C Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) East End 72C East End 75A Little Cayman West 83A\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_64\", \"num\": \"64.\", \"text\": \"Powers of corporation 64. The corporation has full power for the benefit and purposes of the Council or for any special purpose or purposes of or connected with them, or their work in the Islands any lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, real or personal property or any estate or interest therein to \u2014 (a) acquire by purchase, transfer, donation, exchange, devise, bequest, grant, gift, conveyance or otherwise; (b) receive money on loan and borrow or raise money in such manner as the corporation shall think fit and in particular by the issue of bonds, debentures or debenture stock (perpetual or otherwise) and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed, raised or owing by mortgage, charge or lien upon all or any of the property or assets of the corporation; (c) draw, make, accept, indorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, debentures, bonds and other negotiable or transferable instruments; and (d) do all other things as the Council may, from time to time, declare and publish in two issues of the Gazette or as may be deemed incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them. The objects specified in this Part and in each of the foregoing paragraphs shall be regarded as independent objects.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_65\", \"num\": \"65.\", \"text\": \"Trusts upon which property held 65. (1) All lands and hereditaments hereby vested in or which may hereafter, at any time, be acquired by or become vested in the corporation shall be held, occupied, possessed and enjoyed, upon such general or special trusts, and for such general or special purposes, and with and subject to such general or special powers and provisions, as shall, from time to time, or at any time or times, in respect of all or any of such lands, be described by resolution of the Council and until and subject to such declarations, and so far as the same shall not extend upon the trusts and for the purposes, and with and subject to the powers and provisions, mentioned and set forth in subsection (2). (2) The said purposes, powers and provisions are \u2014 (a) upon trust, to permit and suffer the lands and hereditaments and the erections and buildings for the time being thereon, and their appurtenances, to be used and occupied for such purposes connected with Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Cayman Islands or their Church or educational or training work in the Islands as the Council shall, from time to time, direct, appoint, sanction or approve; (b) to permit and suffer all and every such churches or places of religious workshop, theological or educational training institutions, youth centres, schools, vestries, dwelling houses, offices, outrooms and other buildings and conveniences to be erected or built upon the said lands and hereditaments or, being built or erected, to be enlarged, altered, improved, repaired, removed or pulled down, as and whenever the Council shall, from time to time, or at any time direct, sanction or approve; (c) to permit and suffer each and every church or place of religious worship for the time being upon such lands and hereditaments to be used, occupied and enjoyed, solely as a place for the religious worship and service of God, the preaching of the Gospel and expounding and teaching the Holy Scriptures, according to the doctrines and usages professed and observed by the body of Christians known as the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands; (d) to permit and suffer to officiate in each church or place of worship on the said lands, and to have the conduct, direction and management of the services, worship and teaching therein, such minister, ministers or other person or persons only as shall be thereunto for the time being duly appointed in accordance with the rules, regulations and practices of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands or such person or persons as shall, from time to time, be thereunto requested by such minister so appointed as aforesaid; (e) to permit and suffer such dwelling-house on the said lands and hereditaments as shall or may, at any time, be assigned as a residence for the minister in charge of or connected with any chapel or mission station of the said church, and the sub-offices and appurtenances thereof, including so much land as shall be attached thereto as incident to such residence, to be used, occupied, possessed and enjoyed by the minister for the time being in charge of, or appointed to or connected with, such church in accordance with such rules, regulations and practices as aforesaid, as a residence for the minister and the minister\u2019s family; (f) to permit and suffer such parts of the said lands and hereditaments, if any, as may be set apart as a burial ground to be used by the ministers and members of the said church \u2014 Provided nevertheless that the minister or persons already in charge of any church on the said lands, or any of them as the minister thereof shall be deemed to be so in charge by the appointment and with the approval of the Church aforesaid, but that whenever any authority of the Church having jurisdiction over any minister or person in charge of any such lands shall, Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) in the exercise of the powers committed to it, declare by any resolution or other official act any now existing or future appointment of any such minister or person in respect of the said lands, or any part thereof or of any church at an end, such minister or person shall thereupon absolutely cease to be entitled to the privileges or benefits of the trusts aforesaid; (g) to permit every church built on such lands to be used under the authority of the Council according to the doctrines and usages professed and observed by the body of Christians known as the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, and also to permit and suffer every such church building and the lands associated with the church to be supervised and maintained by the Board of that church, provided nevertheless that Council shall have the final authority in all matters relating to such churches; and (h) to permit and suffer every school, training institution, youth centre and other facility built on such lands to be used under the authority of Council according to the doctrine and usages professed and observed by the body of Christians known as the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, and also to permit and suffer every such abovementioned institution to be superintended only by such Board of Governors or other Board or Committee as shall be duly approved by Council, provided nevertheless, that the Council shall have the final authority in all matters referring to such institutions as mentioned above \u2014 Provided also that it shall be lawful for the corporation, in the manner, under the circumstances and to the extent and subject to the limitations and with the sanctions or approvals provided or required by this Part but not otherwise, to convey and assure, sell or exchange, or lease or otherwise deal with the said lands, hereditaments and premises, or any of them, or any part thereof.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_66\", \"num\": \"66.\", \"text\": \"Transfer of other Church property 66. In the case of any church or congregation in the Islands desiring to unite with the Church, to adopt their principles and practices and submit to the jurisdiction and rules of the Church, the corporation may accept the transfer of the property of such church, to be held subject to the trusts from time to time affecting the property vested in the corporation, and such transfer shall be made by the trustees of such property, under the resolution of such church or congregation directing such transfer, duly passed at a church meeting of such church or congregation by the like majorities and in like manner as would authorise a sale of the same lands, or otherwise duly passed in accordance with the rules or practices of such church or congregation. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_67\", \"num\": \"67.\", \"text\": \"Power to appoint attorneys 67. It shall be lawful for the corporation, from time to time when and as it may be deemed necessary or advisable, by deed to appoint a person or persons as the attorney or attorneys of the corporation, or of the members thereof, either generally, for a limited period or on specified conditions and without limiting the generality of the foregoing to \u2014 (a) take possession or care of, or manage or collect the rents of any property real or personal for the time being vested, or claimed to be vested, in the corporation; (b) enforce or carry into effect the trusts or provisions affecting or rating to any such property real or personal; and (c) carry out the directions of the members of the corporation or of the Council in respect of the same trust premises or any of them, and such appointments and powers of attorney may, from time to time at the corporation\u2019s pleasure, be revoked and determined by deed.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_68\", \"num\": \"68.\", \"text\": \"Power to dispose of property 68. The corporation may, from time to time, as may be deemed desirable, sell and dispose of, transfer, exchange, lease, rent out or convey any lands, hereditaments, buildings, goods, chattels or effects for the time being vested in the corporation \u2014 Provided that no land, hereditaments, buildings or real property shall be sold, disposed of, exchanged, conveyed, leased or rented for any term longer than from year to year without the expressed concurrence and approval of the Council.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_69\", \"num\": \"69.\", \"text\": \"Application of proceeds of property 69. All rents, issues and profits of the lands and hereditaments vested in or acquired by the corporation, and all proceeds of such of them as shall be sold or exchanged, shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Council for the purposes of the Church in the Islands.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_70\", \"num\": \"70.\", \"text\": \"Execution of deeds 70. No deed or transfer of land purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any force or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal thereof and countersigned by at least two of the members of the corporation, nor unless, in cases where the concurrence of the Council is required, the resolution of the Council, duly signed by the Chairperson and the Regional Deputy General Secretary thereof, evidencing such concurrence, is annexed to such deed or incorporation therein. Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_71\", \"num\": \"71.\", \"text\": \"Reference of questions and disputes to Council 71. In all cases of any question or dispute in reference to the trusts powers or provisions affecting any lands or hereditaments vested in or claimed to be vested in the corporation, or the exercise or enforcement thereof, or in reference to the doctrines or usages of the Church in relation to any such lands, or the occupancy, charge or superintendence thereof, or any trusts or provisions affecting the same, or in reference to the members of the corporation, or in reference to the right of any minister or person to occupy or of any board or committee to superintend, take or keep charge of any such lands or hereditaments, or any part thereof, or any buildings thereon, the same shall be referred to the Council, and its decision thereon shall be absolutely binding and conclusive as to such question or dispute.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_72\", \"num\": \"72.\", \"text\": \"Evidence of acts 72. For the purposes of this Part, any resolution, decision or document purporting to be signed by the Chairperson and the Regional Deputy General Secretary of the Council and purporting to be proved by a Voluntary Declaration of such (as the case may be) shall be prima facie evidence of the official status of the parties signing the same, and also of the facts therein stated, in all Courts of and elsewhere in the Islands. 72A. Assets and income 72A. (1) The assets and income of the Church shall be applied exclusively for the furtherance of the purposes of the Church. (2)  No portion of the assets and income of the Church shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders, owners or members of the Church, unless such distribution is intended for the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the activities of the Church or paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the Church. PART 10 - Reservation of Rights\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_73\", \"num\": \"73.\", \"text\": \"Reservation of rights 73. Nothing in this Act shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King or of any bodies politic or corporate, or other person or persons, except such as are mentioned or referred to in this Act and except all persons claiming legally or beneficially from, through or under them, or any of them.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_74\", \"num\": \"74.\", \"text\": \"Cabinet may amend by Order 74. The Cabinet may, by Order, amend this Act in relation to \u2014 (a)  a change of the name of a Church; and (b)  a change in the ownership of the real property listed under section 9, 21, 32, 37, 42, 47, 51 or 63 in respect of the relevant Church, Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) that is incorporated under this Act. Publication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 28th day of January, 2026. Kim Bulling Clerk of Cabinet Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) ENDNOTES ENDNOTES Table of Legislation history: SL # Act\/Law # Legislation Commencement Gazette 32\/2025 Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Commencement) Order, 2025 26-Aug-2025 LG30\/2025\/s2 7\/2025 Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Act, 2025 29-Aug-2025 LG28\/2025\/s1 56\/2020 Citation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020 3-Dec-2020 LG89\/2020\/s1 Churches Incorporation Law (2007 Revision) 9-Jul-2007 G14\/2007\/s5 33\/2006 Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Law, 2006 27-Dec-2006 G26\/2006\/s4 Churches Incorporation Law (1998 Revision) 2-Feb-1998 G3\/1998\/s1 11\/1995 Church of God on Hospital Road (Amendment) Law, 19-Dec-1995 GE20\/1995\/s3 16\/1988 Church on Hospital Road (Incorporation) Law, 1988 13-Feb-1989 G4\/1989\/s5 14\/1984 Church of God (Universal) (Incorporation) Law, 1980 (Commencement) Order, 1984 (sic) 14-May-1984 G10\/1984\/p1 8\/1983 Church of God (Universal) (Incorporation) Law, 1983 14-May-1984 G11\/1983\/S8 29\/1979 Anglican Church of the Cayman Islands Law, 1979 8-Oct-1979 G21\/1979\/S7 14\/1979 Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands (Incorporation and Vesting) Law, 1979 7-May-1979 G10\/1979\/S18 20\/1978 The New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands (Incorporation) Law, 1978 25-Sep-1978 G20\/1978\/S5 31\/1977 United Church Incorporation Law, 1977 19-Dec-1977 G26\/1977\/S9 12\/1974 Cayman Islands Mission of Seventh-Day Adventists (Incorporation) Law, 1974 8-Aug-1974 GN No. 159 of 14\/1972 New Testament Church of God (Incorporation) Law, 29-Sep-1972 GN No. 183 of ENDNOTES Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision) (Price: $8.80)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}], \"meta\": {\"notes\": null, \"workflow\": null, \"lifecycle\": {\"source\": \"#cilegis\", \"eventRef\": [{\"eId\": \"e_commence_2026_01_29\", \"date\": \"2026-01-29\", \"type\": \"generation\", \"source\": \"#cilegis\"}]}, \"references\": {\"source\": \"#canary\", \"TLCRole\": 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Incorporation\nLaw (31 of 1977), the Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Law, 2006, the Citation of\nActs of Parliament Act, 2020 and the Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Act, 2026.\n\nRevised under the authority of the Law Revision Act (2020 Revision).\n\nOriginally enacted \u2014\nLaw 14 of 1972-28th September, 1972\nLaw 12 of 1974-5th July, 1974\nLaw 31 of 1977-5th December 1977\nLaw 20 of 1978-8th September, 1978\nLaw 14 of 1979-11th April, 1979\nLaw 29 of 1979-6th September, 1979\nLaw 8 of 1983-24th February, 1983\nLaw 16 of 1988-20th September, 1988\nLaw 11 of 1995-15th September, 1995\nLaw 33 of 2006-10th November, 2006\nAct 56 of 2020-7th December, 2020\nAct 7 of 2025-27th June, 2025.\n\nConsolidated and revised this 31st day of December, 2025.\n\nNote: (not forming part of this Act):  This revision replaces the 2007 Revision which\nshould now be discarded.\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 3\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nCHURCHES INCORPORATION ACT\n(2026 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\nSection\nPage\nPART 1 - Introductory\n1.\nShort title ...................................................................................................................................7\n2.\nDefinition ...................................................................................................................................7\nPART 2 - Agape Family Worship Centre\n3.\nDefinitions in this Part ................................................................................................................7\n4.\nConstitution of corporation .........................................................................................................8\n5.\nRepealed ...................................................................................................................................8\n6.\nNon-liability of members ............................................................................................................8\n7.\nPowers to make rules ................................................................................................................8\n8.\nPower of corporation ..................................................................................................................9\n9.\nChurch property vested in corporation .......................................................................................9\n10.\nTrusts upon which property held .............................................................................................. 10\n11.\nPower to dispose of property ................................................................................................... 10\n12.\nApplication of proceeds of property .......................................................................................... 10\n12A. Assets and Income of the Agape Family Worship Centre ......................................................... 10\nPART 3 - Anglican Church of the Cayman Islands\n13.\nDefinitions and interpretation in this Part .................................................................................. 11\n14.\nConstitution of Council ............................................................................................................. 12\n15.\nConstitution of body corporate ................................................................................................. 12\n16.\nRemoval of members ............................................................................................................... 13\n\nArrangement of Sections\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 4\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n17.\nNon-liability of members .......................................................................................................... 13\n18.\nCommon seal .......................................................................................................................... 13\n19.\nPower to make rules ................................................................................................................ 13\n20.\nTemporary provisions .............................................................................................................. 13\n21.\nVesting of property .................................................................................................................. 14\n22.\nPowers of corporation .............................................................................................................. 15\n22A. Assets and income of the Anglican Church of the Cayman Islands .......................................... 15\n23.\nTrusts upon which property held .............................................................................................. 16\n24.\nPower to appoint attorney ........................................................................................................ 18\n25.\nPower to dispose of property ................................................................................................... 18\n26.\nApplication of proceeds of property .......................................................................................... 18\n27.\nReference of questions and disputes to Council ...................................................................... 19\n28.\nEvidence of acts ...................................................................................................................... 19\nPART 4 - Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day\nAdventists\n29.\nDefinitions in this Part .............................................................................................................. 19\n30.\nCreation of corporation and officers thereof ............................................................................. 19\n31.\nSigning officers of corporation.................................................................................................. 20\n31A. Bye-laws .................................................................................................................................. 20\n31B. Liability .................................................................................................................................... 21\n32.\nVesting of property .................................................................................................................. 21\n33.\nPowers of corporation .............................................................................................................. 22\n33A. Assets and income of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.................. 23\nPART 5 - Church of God (Universal)\n34.\nDefinitions in this Part .............................................................................................................. 23\n35.\nCreation of corporation of officers thereof ................................................................................ 23\n36.\nSigning officers of corporation.................................................................................................. 24\n37.\nVesting of property .................................................................................................................. 24\n38.\nPowers of corporation .............................................................................................................. 25\nPART 6 - New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands\n39.\nDefinitions in this Part .............................................................................................................. 25\n40.\nCreation of corporation and officers thereof ............................................................................. 26\n41.\nSigning officers of corporation.................................................................................................. 26\n42.\nVesting of property .................................................................................................................. 26\n43.\nPowers of corporation .............................................................................................................. 27\nPART 7 - New Testament Church of God\n44.\nDefinitions in this Part .............................................................................................................. 27\n45.\nCreation of corporation and officers thereof ............................................................................. 27\n46.\nSigning officers of corporation.................................................................................................. 28\n47.\nVesting of property .................................................................................................................. 28\n48.\nPowers of corporation .............................................................................................................. 29\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 5\n\nPART 8 - The Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman\nIslands\n49.\nDefinitions in this Part .............................................................................................................. 29\n50.\nCreation of corporation ............................................................................................................ 30\n50A. Application of assets and income ............................................................................................. 30\n51.\nVesting of property................................................................................................................... 30\n52.\nPowers of corporation .............................................................................................................. 31\n53.\nAppointment of officer .............................................................................................................. 32\n54.\nVesting of personal property .................................................................................................... 32\nPART 9 - United Church\n55.\nDefinitions in this Part .............................................................................................................. 32\n56.\nConstitution of body corporate ................................................................................................. 32\n57.\nPowers to remove members .................................................................................................... 33\n58.\nAppointment of successors ...................................................................................................... 33\n59.\nNon-liability of members .......................................................................................................... 33\n60.\nCommon seal .......................................................................................................................... 33\n61.\nPower to make rules ................................................................................................................ 33\n62.\nTemporary provisions .............................................................................................................. 34\n63.\nChurch property vested in corporation ..................................................................................... 34\n64.\nPowers of corporation .............................................................................................................. 36\n65.\nTrusts upon which property held .............................................................................................. 36\n66.\nTransfer of other Church property ............................................................................................ 38\n67.\nPower to appoint attorneys ...................................................................................................... 39\n68.\nPower to dispose of property ................................................................................................... 39\n69.\nApplication of proceeds of property .......................................................................................... 39\n70.\nExecution of deeds .................................................................................................................. 39\n71.\nReference of questions and disputes to Council ...................................................................... 40\n72.\nEvidence of acts ...................................................................................................................... 40\n72A. Assets and income .................................................................................................................. 40\nPART 10 - Reservation of Rights\n73.\nReservation of rights ................................................................................................................ 40\n74.\nCabinet may amend by Order .................................................................................................. 40\nENDNOTES\n43\nTable of Legislation history: ............................................................................................................... 43\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 1\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 7\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nCHURCHES INCORPORATION ACT\n(2026 Revision)\n\nPART 1 - Introductory\n1.\nShort title\n1.\nThis Act may be cited as the Churches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision).\n2.\nDefinition\n2.\nIn this Act \u2014\n\u201cIslands\u201d mean the Cayman Islands.\nPART 2 - Agape Family Worship Centre\n3.\nDefinitions in this Part\n3.\nIn this Part \u2014\n\u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under\nthe name of the Agape Family Worship Centre; and\n\u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 4.\n\nSection 4\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 8\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n4.\nConstitution of corporation\n4.\n(1) The persons collectively holding the offices of Chairperson, Secretary,\nTreasurer within the corporation and any other persons appointed to the board\nof the corporation, in such manner as the corporation determines in its\ndocumented bye-laws, and who are also members, are declared and appointed a\ncorporation or body corporate to have continuance forever and perpetual\nsuccession by the name of the Agape Family Worship Centre and possessed of\na corporate seal, if the corporation elects to have a seal, and by that name may\nsue and be sued in all Courts in the Islands.\n(2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any\nvacancy in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1) or by\nany defect in the appointment of any person to any such office.\n(3) The seal of the corporation, if the corporation elects to have one, shall be of such\ndesign and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine.\n(4) On the recording in the Public Recorder Office of a certificate under the seal of\nthe corporation, if the corporation elects to have a seal, the person named in the\ncertificate shall be deemed to be the holder of the office named on the certificate\nuntil the recording or lodging of a certificate of the resignation or termination\nof the said appointee or the appointment of another person to such office.\n5.\nRepealed\n5.\nRepealed by s.3 of the Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Act, 2025 [Act 7 of\n2025].\n6.\nNon-liability of members\n6.\nNo member of the corporation shall be in any way personally responsible as such or\nas a trustee of any of the lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels or effects for the time\nbeing vested in the corporation, for or in respect of any debt due, owing or accruing,\nor hereafter to accrue, upon or in reference to such trust property, nor for any\ninvoluntary loss suffered by the corporation or any member thereof, nor for more\nmoney than shall come into that member\u2019s hands, nor for any injury which may be\ndone by others to the said trust property or any part or parts thereof.\n7.\nPowers to make rules\n7.\n(1) In respect of all matters within the province or discretion, or subject to the\nelection, decision, control or management of the corporation or the members\nthereof it shall be lawful for the corporation in a meeting, from time to time, to\nmake such rules in harmony with the purposes of the corporation as may be\ndeemed desirable \u2014\n(a)\nfor convening and adjourning the meetings of the corporation;\n(b) for conducting its business;\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 8\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 9\n\n(c)\nfor carrying into effect the trust and powers vested in or conferred upon\nthe corporation;\n(d) for recording its proceedings; and\n(e)\ngenerally for the carrying out of the objects of the corporation, and to\nrevoke, alter, add or modify all or any of such rules, and all rules in force\nshall be binding on the members of the corporation.\n(2) Until and except as such rules shall be so made and in force and subject thereto,\nin all cases of a difference of opinion, the decision of an absolute majority of\nthe members for the time being of the corporation shall be deemed to be the\ndecision or act of the corporation.\n8.\nPower of corporation\n8.\nThe corporation shall have power to \u2014\n(a)\nacquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and\nhereditaments whatsoever whether registered at the Land Registry with\nabsolute or provisional title or in fee simple, for leasehold or for any other\nestate or interest therein, and all property, real personal or mixed;\n(b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease,\nmortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise\ndeal with all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or\nvested, or any part thereof;\n(c)\nborrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be\nthought fit and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged\nupon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested\nin the corporation, and to redeem and pay off such securities; and\n(d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period,\nfor such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of\nattorney, and to revoke any such appointment.\n9.\nChurch property vested in corporation\n9.\n(1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the\nIslands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church or are\nheld in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on\nbehalf of the Church by the officials, ministers or members of the Church, or\nany of them, are transferred to and vested in the corporation, their successors\nand assigns subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights, reservations or\nencumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof.\n(2) All property real and personal in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise\ngiven to the said Church or any person for the benefit of the Church, shall be\nvested in and shall be deemed to be the property of the said corporation.\n\nSection 10\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 10\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n(3)  The following is the list of lands and hereditaments that are the subject of\nsubsection (1) \u2014\nRegistration Section\nBlock\nParcel\nSouth Sound\n15C\n24REM1\n (4)  The corporation is not liable for the debts or liabilities of any subsidiary\ncompanies or any companies in which the corporation may have shares unless\nspecifically contracted otherwise in writing by the corporation.\n10.\nTrusts upon which property held\n10. All property real and personal hereby vested in or which may hereafter at any time be\nacquired by or become vested in the corporation shall be held, occupied, possessed\nand enjoyed upon trust for and for the benefit of or connected with or incidental to\nthe Church.\n11.\nPower to dispose of property\n11. The corporation may, from time to time, as may be deemed desirable, sell and dispose\nof, transfer, exchange, lease, rent out or convey any lands, hereditaments, buildings,\ngoods, chattels or effects for the time being vested in the corporation \u2014\nProvided that no land, hereditaments, buildings or real property shall be sold,\ndisposed of, exchanged or conveyed, or leased or rented for any term longer than from\nyear to year without the express concurrence and approval of a majority of the elders\nof the Church.\n12.\nApplication of proceeds of property\n12. All rents, issues and profits of the lands and hereditaments vested in or acquired by\nthe corporation and all proceeds of such of them as shall be sold or exchanged shall\nbe paid to the Treasurer of the corporation for the purposes of the Church in the\nIslands.\n12A. Assets and Income of the Agape Family Worship Centre\n12A. (1) The assets and income of the corporation shall be applied exclusively in the\nfurtherance of the purposes of the corporation and no portion of the assets and\nincome of the corporation shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or\nindirectly to any member of the corporation, unless the distribution is intended\nfor the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the\nactivities of the corporation or paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the\ncorporation.\n(2)  Nothing in this section shall prevent the payment, in good faith, of \u2014\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 13\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 11\n\n(a)  reasonable and proper remuneration to any officer or employee of the\ncorporation or to any member of the corporation, in return for any services\nactually rendered to the corporation;\n(b)  the payment of interest on money lent by any member of the corporation\nat a rate per year \u2014\n(i)  not exceeding two per cent less than the base lending rate prescribed\nfor the time being by a clearing bank selected by the committee or\nthree per cent, whichever is greater; or\n(ii)  at a normal commercial rate; or\n(c)  reasonable and proper rent for premises demised or let by any member of\nthe corporation or of its board of officers for the purposes of the\ncorporation.\n(3)  Any money raised by the corporation or the Church shall be applied to the\nspecific purpose for which it was raised and such purposes may include the\ncharitable aid of a member of the Church.\n(4)  For the purposes of this section, \u201cofficer\u201d means any person appointed to the\nboard of officers of the Corporation.\nPART 3 - Anglican Church of the Cayman Islands\n13.\nDefinitions and interpretation in this Part\n13. (1) In this Part \u2014\n\u201cChurch\u201d means the Anglican Church in the Islands and includes its successors\nand any body for the time being exercising its functions;\n\u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 15;\n\u201cChurch Committee\u201d means the Church Committee as constituted under the\nConstitution and Canons of the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in\nthe Province of the West Indies and includes the Advisory Committee or\nCommittees nominated by the superintending clergy in accordance with the byelaws made under the Constitution and Rules of the Jamaica Church Missionary\nSociety; and\n\u201cCouncil\u201d means the Council established under section 14.\n(2) In this Act, reference to \u201cthe Bishop\u201d, \u201cthe Diocesan Secretary\u201d, \u201cthe\nChancellor\u201d, \u201cthe Chairperson of the Financial Board\u201d and \u201cthe Suffragan\nBishops\u201d shall be construed in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of\nthe Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West\nIndies.\n\nSection 14\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 12\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n14.\nConstitution of Council\n14. (1) There shall be a council consisting of not less than eight nor more than ten\npersons and shall include the Bishop, the Chancellor, the Chairperson of the\nFinancial Board, the Diocesan Secretary, the Suffragan Bishops, the\nSuperintending clergy of the Church and two members of the Church resident\nin the Islands and selected in the manner most acceptable to the Church.\n(2) The Chairperson of the Council shall be the Bishop or the Chairperson\u2019s\nnominee, and a quorum of the Council shall be such number as the Council may\nfix from time to time.\n(3) At meetings of the Council all matters shall be determined by a simple majority\nvote and a decision or resolution of Council shall, for the purposes of this Act,\nbe deemed to be the decision of a simple majority of the members of Council\nfor the time being.\n(4) In any case in which voting is equal, the Chairperson shall, in addition to an\noriginal vote, have a casting vote.\n(5) Subject to subsection (3), the Council shall have the power to regulate its own\nprocedure.\n15.\nConstitution of body corporate\n15. (1) There is constituted for the purposes set forth in this Part a corporation or body\npolitic consisting of five persons namely \u2014\n(a)\nthe Bishop, the Diocesan Secretary for the time being of the Diocese of\nJamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West Indies and\nthe Reverend Weevil Gordon, or the person who, for the time being, is the\nsenior superintending clergy of the Church, and\n(b) two members of the Church resident in the Islands, who shall be selected\nin the manner most acceptable to the Church,\nand the Council may appoint the successors of such members of the corporation\nas vacancies occur, whether by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, as soon\nas may be found convenient after such vacancy occurs.\n(2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any\nvacancy in the body or in any of the offices in subsection (1), or by any defect\nin the appointment of any person to any such office.\n(3) The fact that any vacancy exists at any time among the members of the\ncorporation shall not affect the continuance of the corporation.\n(4) The corporation shall have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the\nname of \u201cThe Anglican Church in the Cayman Islands\u201d and by that name may\nsue or be sued, plead and be impleaded in all Courts of law or equity.\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 16\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 13\n\n(5) No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of\nany force or validity unless sealed with the seal of the corporation and signed\nby three members, two of whom shall be from among those in the category listed\nin paragraph (a) of section 15(1).\n16.\nRemoval of members\n16. Save and except the Bishop and Diocesan Secretary, the Council may, without cause\nand without giving any reason, remove any of the other three members of the\ncorporation and substitute another or others.\n17.\nNon-liability of members\n17. No member of the corporation shall be in any way personally responsible as such, or\nas a trustee of any of the lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels or effects, for the time\nbeing vested in the corporation, for or in respect of any debt due, owing or accruing\nor hereafter to accrue, upon or in reference to such trust property nor for any\ninvoluntary loss suffered by the corporation or any member thereof, nor for money\nthat shall come into that member\u2019s hands, nor for any injury which may be done by\nothers to the said trust property or any part of parts thereof.\n18.\nCommon seal\n18. The corporation shall have a common seal which shall be of such design and pattern\nas the corporation may, from time to time, determine; and it shall be lawful for the\ncorporation to break, alter or renew the said seal as it thinks proper.\n19.\nPower to make rules\n19. In respect of all matters within the discretion, or subject to the election, decision,\ncontrol or management of the corporation or the members thereof, it shall be lawful\nfor the corporation in a meeting, from time to time to make such rules, in harmony\nwith the purposes of the corporation, as may be deemed desirable \u2014\n(a)\nfor convening and adjourning the meetings of the corporation;\n(b) for conducting its business;\n(c)\nfor carrying into effect the trusts and powers vested in or conferred upon\nthe corporation;\n(d) for recording its proceedings; and\n(e)\ngenerally for the carrying out of the objects of the corporation,\nand to revoke, alter, add or modify all or any such rules and all rules in force\nshall be binding on the members of the corporation.\n20.\nTemporary provisions\n20. Until such rules are made and in force, and subject thereto \u2014\n\nSection 21\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 14\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n(a)\nthe Bishop, and in the Bishop\u2019s absence the Diocesan Secretary, shall be\nthe convener with full powers as such; and in the absence of both, any\nmember of the corporation may be the convener;\n(b) in all cases of a difference of opinion, the decision of a simple majority of\nthe members for the time being of the corporation shall be deemed to be\nthe decision or act of the corporation; and\n(c)\nmembers may, in cases where personal attendance can be dispensed with,\nexpress their opinion in writing addressed to the convener, and the opinion\nso expressed may be recorded as the vote of the absentee member.\n21.\nVesting of property\n21. (1) The lands and hereditaments mentioned or referred to in subsection (3) and all\nestate and interest of all and every and any of the grantees named in the several\ndeeds or entered as proprietors in the Register of Lands of the Islands mentioned\nin subsection (3), their heirs and assigns of and in the lands and hereditaments\nby such deeds or transfers or entered in such Register or any of them vested in\nor granted to such grantees or such proprietors of any of them for any estate or\ninterest, or mentioned so to be, and all other lands and hereditaments, if any, and\nall goods, chattels, and personal property in the Islands which are now legally\nor equitably the property of the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in\nthe Province of the West Indies are held in trust for the purposes of the said body\nor are now held possessed, used, occupied or enjoyed on behalf of the Church\nor as Church property by the Church, or by the officials, ministers or members\nof the Church, or any of them, or by any person or persons holding under such\nofficials, ministers or members, of any of them, are hereby transferred to and\nvested in the corporation, its successors and assigns, subject to such rights,\nmortgages, charges, trusts or encumbrances and reservations, if any, affecting\nthe same or any part thereof.\n(2) All property real and personal in the Islands devised or bequeathed by will or\notherwise given to the Church or to any person for the benefit of the Church\nshall be held by, is vested in, and shall be deemed to be the property of the\ncorporation.\n(3) The following is the list of lands and hereditaments the subject of\nsubsection (1) \u2014\nRegistration Section\nBlock\nParcel\nCayman Brac Central\n99A\n314\nCayman Brac Central\n99A\n315\nGeorge Town Central\n13D\n208\nGeorge Town Central\n13D\n212\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 22\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 15\n\nGeorge Town Central\n13D\n250\nGeorge Town Central\n13D\n251\n22.\nPowers of corporation\n22. (1) The corporation has power for the benefit and purposes of the Church or for any\nspecial purpose or purposes of or connected with the work of the Church in the\nIslands any lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects or real or personal\nproperty, or any estate or interest therein to \u2014\n(a)\nacquire by purchase, transfer, donation, exchange, devise, bequest, grant,\ngift, conveyance or otherwise;\n(b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease,\nmortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise\ndeal with all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or any\npart thereof;\n(c)\nreceive money on loan and borrow, raise or secure money in such manner\nas the corporation shall think fit and in particular by the issue of bonds,\ndebentures or debenture stocks (perpetual or otherwise) and to secure the\nrepayment of any money borrowed, raised, secured or owing by mortgage,\ncharge or lien upon all or any of the property or assets of the corporation;\n(d) draw, make, accept, indorse, discount, excuse and issue promissory notes,\nbills of exchange, debentures, bonds and other negotiable or transferable\ninstruments; and\n(e)\ndo all other things as the Council may, from time to time, declare and\npublish in two issues of the Gazette or as may be deemed incidental or\nconducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them.\n(2) The objects specified in this Part and in each paragraph of subsection (1) shall\nbe regarded as independent objects.\n\n22A. Assets and income of the Anglican Church of the Cayman Islands\n22A. The assets and income of the Church shall be applied exclusively in the furtherance\nof the purposes of the Church and no portion of it shall be distributed as profit or\ndividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders, owners or members of\nthe Church, unless such distribution is intended for \u2014\n(a)  the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the\npurposes of the Church; or\n(b)  paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the Church.\n\nSection 23\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 16\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n23.\nTrusts upon which property held\n23. (1) All lands and hereditaments vested in or which may hereafter at any time be\nacquired by or become vested in the corporation shall be held, occupied,\npossessed and enjoyed, upon such general or special trusts, and for such general\nor special purposes, and with and subject to such general or special powers and\nprovisions, as shall, from time to time, in respect of all or any of such lands, be\ndescribed by resolution of the Council and until and subject to such declarations,\nand so far as the same shall not extend, upon the trusts and for the purposes, and\nwith and subject to the powers and provisions mentioned and set forth in\nsubsection (2).\n(2) The said purposes, powers and provisions are \u2014\n(a)\nupon trust to permit and suffer the lands and hereditaments and the\nerections and buildings for the time being thereon, and their\nappurtenances, to be used and occupied only for such purposes connected\nwith the Church or the educational or training work of the Church, as the\nCouncil shall, from time to time, direct, appoint, sanction or approve;\n(b) to permit and suffer the church or place of religious worship, theological\nor educational training institutions, youth centres, schools, vestries,\ndwelling houses, offices, outrooms and other buildings and conveniences\nto be erected or built upon the said lands and hereditaments, or being built\nor erected to be enlarged, altered, improved, repaired, removed or pulled\ndown, as and whenever the Council shall, from time to time, direct,\nsanction or approve;\n(c)\nto permit and suffer the church or place of religious worship for the time\nbeing upon such lands and hereditaments to be used, occupied and enjoyed\nsolely as a place for the religious worship and service of God, and the\npreaching of the Gospel and expounding and teaching the Holy Scriptures,\naccording to the doctrines and usages professed and observed by the\nChurch in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West\nIndies in full communion with the See of Canterbury and the Anglican\nCommunion throughout the world;\n(d) to permit and suffer to officiate in each church or place of worship on the\nsaid lands, and to have the conduct, direction and management, of the\nservices, worship and teaching therein, such minister or ministers or other\nperson or persons only as shall be thereunto for the time being duly\nappointed in accordance with the rules, regulations and practices of the\nChurch in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province of the West\nIndies or such person or persons as shall, from time to time, be thereunto\nrequested by such minister so appointed as aforesaid;\n(e)\nto permit and suffer such dwelling house on the said lands and\nhereditaments as shall or may at any time be assigned as a residence for\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 23\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 17\n\nthe minister in charge of or connected with any chapel or mission station\nof the said Church, and the sub-offices and appurtenances thereof\nincluding so much land as shall be attached thereto as incident to such\nresidence, to be used, occupied, possessed and enjoyed by the minister for\nthe time being in charge of, appointed to or connected with, such church\nin accordance with such rules, regulations and practices as aforesaid, as a\nresidence for the minister and the minister\u2019s family;\n(f)\nto permit and suffer such part of the said lands and hereditaments, if any,\nas may be set apart as a burial ground to be used by the minister and\nmembers of the said church \u2014\nProvided that the minister or persons already in charge of any church on the said\nlands, or any of them as the minister thereof, shall be deemed to be so in charge\nby the appointment and with the approval of the church aforesaid, but that\nwhenever any authority of the church having jurisdiction over any minister or\nperson in charge of any such lands, shall, in the exercise of the powers\ncommitted to it, declare by any resolution or other official act any now existing\nor future appointment of any such minister or person in respect of the said lands,\nor any part thereof, or of any church at an end, such minister or person shall\nthereupon absolutely cease to be entitled to the privileges or benefits of the trusts\naforesaid;\n(g) to permit every church built on such lands to be used under the authority\nof the Council according to the doctrines and usages professed and\nobserved by the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Province\nof the West Indies in full communion with the See of Canterbury and the\nAnglican Communion throughout the world, and also to permit and suffer\nevery such church building and the lands associated with the church to be\nsupervised and maintained by the church committee provided nevertheless\nthat the Council shall have the final authority in all matters relating to such\nchurches; and\n(h) to permit and suffer every school, training institution, youth centre and\nother facility built on such lands to be used under the authority of the\nCouncil according to the doctrine and usages professed and observed by\nthe body known as the Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the\nProvince of the West Indies in full communion with the See of Canterbury\nand the Anglican Communion throughout the world, and also to permit\nand suffer every such abovementioned institution to be superintended only\nby such committee as shall be duly approved by the Council, provided\nnevertheless that the Council shall have the final authority in all matters\nreferring to such institutions as mentioned above \u2014\nProvided also that it shall be lawful for the corporation, in the manner and under\nthe circumstances, and to the extent and subject to the limitations and with the\nsanction or approvals provided or required by the law incorporating it but not\n\nSection 24\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 18\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\notherwise, to convey and assure, sell or exchange, or lease or otherwise deal\nwith the said lands, hereditaments and premises, or any of them or any part\nthereof.\n24.\nPower to appoint attorney\n24. It shall be lawful for the corporation, from time to time when and as it may be deemed\nnecessary or advisable, by deed to appoint a person or persons as the attorney or\nattorneys of the corporation, or of the members thereof, either generally, for a limited\nperiod or on specified conditions and without limiting the generality of the foregoing\nto \u2014\n(a)\ntake possession or care of, or manage or collect the rents of any property\nreal or personal for the time being vested, or claimed to be vested, in the\ncorporation;\n(b) enforce or carry into effect the trust or provisions affecting or relating to\nany such property real or personal; and\n(c)\ncarry out the directions of the members of the corporation or the Council\nin respect of the same trust premises, or any of them, and such\nappointments and powers of attorney may, from time to time, at the\ncorporation\u2019s pleasure, be revoked and determined by deed.\n25.\nPower to dispose of property\n25. (1) The corporation may, from time to time, as may be deemed desirable, sell and\ndispose of, transfer, exchange, lease, rent out or convey any lands,\nhereditaments, buildings, goods, chattels or effects for the time being vested in\nthe corporation.\n(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), no land, hereditaments, buildings or real\nproperty shall be sold, disposed of, exchanged or conveyed, or leased or rented\nfor any term longer than from year to year without the express concurrence and\napproval of the Council.\n26.\nApplication of proceeds of property\n26. All rents, issues and profits of the lands and hereditaments vested in or acquired by\nthe corporation, and all proceeds of such of them as shall be sold or exchanged, shall\nbe paid to the Council for the purposes of the Church in the Islands.\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 27\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 19\n\n27.\nReference of questions and disputes to Council\n27. In all cases of any questions or disputes in reference to the trusts, powers or provisions\naffecting any lands or hereditaments vested in or claimed to be vested in the\ncorporation, or the exercise or enforcement thereof, or in reference to the doctrines or\nusages of the Church in relation to any such lands, or the occupancy, charge or\nsuperintendence thereof, or any trusts or provisions affecting the same, or in reference\nto the members of the corporation, or in reference to the right of any minister or\nperson to occupy or of any board or committee to superintend, or take or keep charge\nof any such lands or hereditaments, or any part thereof, or any buildings thereon, the\nsame shall be referred to the Council, and its decision thereon shall be absolutely\nbinding and conclusive as to such question or dispute.\n28.\nEvidence of acts\n28. For the purposes of this Part, any resolution, decision or document purporting to be\nsigned by the Chairperson and the Secretary of Council and purporting to be proved\nby a voluntary declaration of such (as the case may be) shall be prima facie evidence\nof the official status of the parties signing the same, and also of the facts therein stated,\nin all Courts of and elsewhere in the Islands.\nPART 4 - Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day\nAdventists\n29.\nDefinitions in this Part\n29. In this Part \u2014\n\u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under\nthe name of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists\nincluding its successors and any body for the time being exercising its functions;\nand\n\u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 30.\n30.\nCreation of corporation and officers thereof\n30. (1) The persons holding the office of President, Executive Secretary, Chief\nFinancial Officer and any other persons who are appointed to the Executive\nCommittee are hereby declared to be a corporation, and each person holding\nsuch office or so appointed shall be a member of the corporation.\n(1A) The corporation shall have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the\nname of \u201cthe Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists\u201d and\npossessed of a corporate seal, if the corporation elects to have a seal, and by that\nname may sue and be sued in all courts in the Cayman Islands.\n\nSection 31\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 20\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n(1B) No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of\nany force or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal, if the corporation\nelects to have a seal, and signed by any two of the persons listed below \u2014\n(a)  President of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists;\n(b)  Executive Secretary of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day\nAdventists; or\n(c)  the Chief Financial Officer of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventhday Adventists.\n(2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any\nvacancy in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1) or by\nany defect in the appointment of any person to any such office.\n(3) The seal of the corporation, if the corporation elects to have a seal, shall be of\nsuch design and pattern as the corporation may, from time to time, determine.\n(4) Upon the recording in the Public Records Office a certificate under the seal of\nthe corporation, if the corporation elects to have a seal, and appointment of any\nperson to any office mentioned in subsection (1), the person named in such a\ncertificate shall be deemed to be the holder of the office named therein until the\nrecording or lodging of a certificate of the appointment of another person to such\noffice.\n31.\nSigning officers of corporation\n31. No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any\nforce or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal and signed by any two of\nthe following, namely the President of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventhday Adventists and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Cayman Islands Conference of\nSeventh-day Adventists, and\/or the President of the West Indies Conference of\nSeventh-day Adventists and the Executive Secretary of the West Indies Conference\nof Seventh-day Adventists.\n31A. Bye-laws\n31A. (1) In respect of all matters within the province or discretion, or subject to the\nelection, decision, control or management of the corporation, it shall be lawful\nfor the Church in a meeting to agree the form of bye-laws which governs and to\nmake such rules, in harmony with the purposes of the corporation \u2014\n(a)  for convening and adjourning the meetings of the corporation;\n(b)  for conducting business;\n(c)  for carrying into effect the trust and powers vested in or conferred on the\ncorporation;\n(d)  for recording its proceedings; and\n(e)  generally for the carrying out of the objects of the corporation,\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 31B\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 21\n\nand to revoke, alter add or modify all or any of the bye-laws with the\napproval of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.\n(2)  The bye-laws in force shall be binding on the members of the corporation.\n31B. Liability\n31B. (1) No member of the corporation shall be in any way personally responsible as\nsuch or as a trustee of any of the lands, hereditament, goods, chattels or effects\nfor the time being vested in the corporation, for or in respect of any debt due,\nowing or accruing, on or in reference to such trust property, nor for any\ninvoluntary loss suffered by the corporation, nor for more money than shall\ncome into the member\u2019s hands, nor for any injury which may be done by others\nto the said trust property or any parts thereof.\n(2)  The corporation shall not be liable for the debts or liabilities of any subsidiary\ncompanies or any companies in which the corporation may have shares unless\nspecifically contracted otherwise in writing by the corporation.\n32.\nVesting of property\n32. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the\nIslands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church or are\nheld in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on\nbehalf of the Church by the officials, minister or members of the Church are, if\nnot already legally registered in the name of the Church, transferred to and\nvested in the corporation, their successors and assigns subject to all trusts,\nmortgages, charges, rights, reservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the\nsame or any part thereof.\n(2) All real property and personal property in the Islands bequeathed by will or\notherwise given to the Church or to any person for the benefit of the Church,\nshall be vested in and shall be deemed to be the property of the corporation.\n(3)  The following is the real property which is the subject of subsection (2) \u2014\nRegistration Section\nBlock\nParcel\nWest Bay North West\n4B\n293\nWest Bay North\n4D\n489\nGeorge Town South\n14E\n100\nGeorge Town South\n14E\n552\nGeorge Town South\n14E\n785\nSpotts\n24E\n397\nSpotts\n24E\n398\n\nSection 33\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 22\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\nSavannah\n27B\n12\nSavannah\n27B\n14\nSavannah\n27B\n23\nSavannah\n28B\n4\nBodden Town\n44B\n181\nBodden Town\n44B\n182\nNorth Side\n49B\n41\nMidland East\n54D\n2\nMidland East\n54D\n8\nMidland East\n54D\n9\nNorth Side\n57E\n210\nEast End\n72C\n77\nCayman Brac Central\n104A\n21\nCayman Brac East\n109B\n28\n33.\nPowers of corporation\n33. The corporation shall have power for the benefit and purposes of the Church or for\nany special purpose or purposes of or connected with the work of the Church in the\nIslands, with respect to any lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects or seal\nor personal property, or any estate or interest therein to \u2014\n(a)\nacquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and\nhereditaments whatsoever in fee simple, for leasehold, or for any other\nestate or interest therein, and all property, real, personal or mixed;\n(b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease,\nmortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise\ndeal with all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or\nvested, or any part thereof;\n(c)\nborrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be\nthought fit, and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged\nupon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested\nin the corporation, and to redeem and pay off such securities; and\n(d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period,\nfor such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of\nattorney, and to revoke any such appointment.\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 33A\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 23\n\n33A. Assets and income of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day\nAdventists\n33A. (1) The assets and income of the corporation shall be applied exclusively in the\nfurtherance of the purposes of the corporation and no portion of the assets and\nincome of the corporation shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or\nindirectly to any member of the corporation, unless such distribution is intended\nfor the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the\nactivities of the corporation or paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the\ncorporation.\n(2)  Nothing in this section shall prevent the payment, in good faith, of \u2014\n(a)  reasonable and proper remuneration to any officer or employee of the\ncorporation or to any member of the corporation, in return for any services\nrendered to the corporation;\n(b)  interest on money lent by any member of the corporation or any officer of\nthe corporation at a rate per year \u2014\n(i)  not exceeding two per cent less than the base lending rate prescribed\nfor the time being by a clearing bank selected by the Executive\nCommittee or three per cent, whichever is greater; or\n\n(ii)  at a normal commercial rate; or\n(c)  reasonable and proper rent for premises demised or let by any member of\nthe corporation or of its board of officers.\nPART 5 - Church of God (Universal)\n34.\nDefinitions in this Part\n34. In this Part \u2014\n\u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under\nthe name of the Church of God (Universal); and\n\u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 35.\n35.\nCreation of corporation of officers thereof\n35. (1) The following persons, namely Robert James Arch, Executive Pastor, Hope\nDorothy Ethlyn Glidden-Borden, the Secretary in the Islands and Sarah Lois\nArch, the Treasurer in the Islands and their successors for the time being in the\nrespective offices of Executive Pastor in the Islands, Secretary in the Islands and\nTreasurer in the Islands are hereby declared, constituted and appointed a\ncorporation or body corporate to have continuance forever and perpetual\nsuccession by the name of \u201cThe Church of God (Universal)\u201d and possessed of a\ncorporate seal and by that name may sue and be sued in all Courts in the Islands.\n\nSection 36\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 24\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n(2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any\nvacancies in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1) or by\nany defect in the appointment of any person to any such office.\n(3) The seal of the corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation\nmay, from time to time, determine.\n(4) Upon the recording in the Public Records Office of a certificate under the seal\nof the corporation of the appointment of any person to any office mentioned in\nsubsection (1), the person named in such certificate shall be deemed to be the\nholder of the office named therein until the recording or lodging of a certificate\nof the appointment of another person to such office.\n36.\nSigning officers of corporation\n36. No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any\nforce or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal and signed by any two of\nthe following, namely the Executive Pastor in the Islands, Treasurer in the Islands\nand Secretary in the Islands.\n37.\nVesting of property\n37. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the\nIslands which are now legally or equitable the property of the Church or are held\nin trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on behalf\nof the Church by the officials, ministers or members of the Church or any of\nthem or by any person holding under such officials, ministers or members or\nany of them are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, its\nsuccessors and assigns subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights,\nreservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof.\n(2) All property real and personal in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise\ngiven to the Church or any person for the benefit of the Church shall be held by,\nis vested in and shall be deemed to be the property of the said corporation.\n(3)  The following is the real property which is the subject of subsection (2) \u2014\nRegistration Section\nBlock\nParcel\nGeorge Town South\n14E\n302\nGeorge Town South\n14E\n686\nGeorge Town Central\n14BH\n99\nSavannah\n28D\n27\nLower Valley\n32B\n54\nEast End\n72C\n75\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 38\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 25\n\n38.\nPowers of corporation\n38. (1) The corporation shall have power to \u2014\n(a)\nacquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and\nhereditaments whatsoever in fee simple for leasehold, or for any other\nestate or interest therein, and all property, real, personal or mixed;\n(b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease,\nmortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise\ndeal with, all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or\nvested or any part thereof;\n(c)\nborrow or raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be\nthought fit and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged\nupon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested\nin the corporation and to redeem and pay off such securities; and\n(d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period,\nfor such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power of\nattorney, and to revoke any such appointment.\n(2)  The assets and income of the Church shall be applied exclusively in the\nfurtherance of the purposes of the Church and no portion of it shall be distributed\nas profit or dividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders,\nowners or members of the Church, unless such distribution is intended for \u2014\n(a)  the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the\nactivities of the Church; or\n(b)  paying for expense incurred on behalf of the Church.\n\nPART 6 - New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands\n39.\nDefinitions in this Part\n39. In this Part \u2014\n\u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under\nthe name of the New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands; and\n\u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 40.\n\nSection 40\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 26\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n40.\nCreation of corporation and officers thereof\n40. (1) The following persons, namely Michael Kraus, District Apostle, Erwin Wagner,\nApostle and George Meisinger, District Rector and their successors for the time\nbeing in the respective offices of District Apostle, Apostle and District Rector\nin the Islands are hereby declared constituted and appointed a corporation or\nbody corporate to have continuance forever and perpetual succession by the\nname of \u201cThe New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands\u201d and possessed of\na corporate seal and by that name may sue and be sued in all Courts in the\nIslands.\n(2) No act or proceeding of the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any\nvacancy in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1), or by\nany defect in the appointment of any person to any such office.\n(3) The seal of the corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation\nmay, from time to time, determine.\n(4) Upon the recording in the Public Records Office of a certificate under the seal\nof the corporation of the appointment of any person to any office mentioned in\nsubsection (1), the person named in such certificate shall be deemed to be the\nholder of the office named therein until the recording or lodging of a certificate\nof the appointment of another person to such office.\n41.\nSigning officers of corporation\n41. No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of any\nforce or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal and signed by any two of\nthe following, namely the District Apostle, Apostle and District Rector in the Islands.\n42.\nVesting of property\n42. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the\nIslands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church or are\nheld in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on\nbehalf of the Church by the officials, ministers, Apostles, Rectors or members\nof the Church or any of them or by any person holding under such officials,\nministers, Apostles, Rectors or members or any of them are hereby transferred\nto and vested in the corporation, their successors and assigns subject to all trusts,\nmortgages, charges, rights, reservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the\nsame or any part thereof.\n(2) All property, real and personal in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise,\ngiven to the said Church or any person for the benefit of the Church, shall be\nheld by, is vested in and shall be deemed to be the property of the said\ncorporation.\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 43\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 27\n\n43.\nPowers of corporation\n43. The corporation shall have power to \u2014\n(a)\nacquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and\nhereditaments whatsoever in fee simple, for leasehold, or for any other\nestate or interest therein, and all property, real, personal or mixed;\n(b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease,\nmortgage, sell, convey, assign, dispose of, turn to account or otherwise\ndeal with all or any of the property, both present and future, so held or\nvested, or any part thereof;\n(c)\nborrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be\nthought fit and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged\nupon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested\nin the corporation and to redeem and pay off such securities; and\n(d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period,\nand for such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power\nof attorney, and to revoke any such appointment.\nPART 7 - New Testament Church of God\n44.\nDefinitions in this Part\n44. In this Part \u2014\n\u201cChurch\u201d means the persons for the time being associated in the Islands under\nthe name of the New Testament Church of God; and\n\u201ccorporation\u201d means the body incorporated under section 45.\n45.\nCreation of corporation and officers thereof\n45. (1) The  following persons, namely Eitel Nathaniel Morris (Administrative Bishop),\nElaine Jacqueline Willis (Secretary\/Treasurer), Clovis Hugh George Wilks\n(Executive Board Member), Richard Cornelius Fraser (Executive Board\nMember) are declared constituted and appointed a corporation or body corporate\nto have continuance forever and perpetual succession by name of \u201cThe New\nTestament Church of God\u201d possessed of a corporate seal and by that name may\nsue and be sued in all courts in the Islands.\n(2) No act or proceeding or the corporation shall be invalidated by reason of any\nvacancy in the body or in any of the offices mentioned in subsection (1) or by\nany defect in the appointment of any person to any such office.\n(3) The seal of the corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the corporation\nmay, from time to time, determine.\n\nSection 46\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 28\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n(4) Upon the recording in the Public Records Office of a certificate under the seal\nof the corporation of the appointment of any person to any office mentioned in\nsubsection (1), the person named in such a certificate shall be deemed to be the\nholder of the office named therein until the recording or lodging of a certificate\nof the appointment of another person to such office.\n46.\nSigning officers of corporation\n46. No deed or document purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be valid\nunless it is sealed with the corporate seal and signed by the Administrative Bishop\nand any two of the following persons \u2014\n(a)  the Secretary\/Treasurer in the Islands; or\n(b)  a member of the Executive Board in the Islands.\n47.\nVesting of property\n47. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the\nIslands which are now legally or equitably the property of the Church or are\nheld in trust for the purposes of the Church or are now held or possessed on\nbehalf of the Church by the officials, ministers or members of the Church or any\nof them or by any person holding under such officials, ministers or members or\nany of them are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, their\nsuccessors and assigns subject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights,\nreservations or encumbrances, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof.\n(2) All property real and personal in the Islands bequeathed by will or otherwise,\ngiven to the said Church or any person for the benefit of the Church, shall be\nheld by, and is vested in, and deemed to be the property of the said Corporation.\n(3)  The following is the real property which is the subject of subsection (2) \u2014\nRegistration Section\nBlock\nParcel\nWest Bay North West\n1C\n360\nGeorge Town Central\n14BG\n60\nGeorge Town South\n14E\n241\nGeorge Town South\n14E\n250\nGeorge Town East\n19E\n6\nGeorge Town East\n19E\n7\nGeorge Town East\n19E\n8\nHigh Rock\n68A\n77\nCayman Brac West\n96D\n27\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 48\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 29\n\n(4)  The assets and income of the Church shall be applied exclusively in the\nfurtherance of the purposes of the Church.\n(5)  No portion of the assets and income of the Church shall be distributed as profit\nor dividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders, owners or\nmembers of the Church unless such distribution is intended for the legitimate\npurpose of compensating a person for services to further the activities of the\nChurch or paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the Church.\n48.\nPowers of corporation\n48. The corporation shall have power to \u2014\n(a)\nacquire, hold, purchase, lease, possess and enjoy any lands and\nhereditaments whatsoever in fees simple, for leasehold, or for any other\nestate or interest therein, and all property, real personal or mixed;\n(b) give, grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease,\nmortgage, sell, convey, transfer, assign, dispose of, turn to account or\notherwise deal with all or any of the property both present and future so\nheld or vested or any part thereof;\n(c)\nborrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be\nthought fit, and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged\nupon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested\nin such corporation and to redeem and pay off any such securities; and\n(d) appoint an attorney or attorneys, either generally or for a limited period,\nand for such purposes and with such powers as may be stated in the power\nof attorney, and to revoke any such appointment.\nPART 8 - The Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman\nIslands\n49.\nDefinitions in this Part\n49. In this Part \u2014\n\u201csuccessors in office\u201d means the persons from time to time having, by\nappointment by the Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church, the ecclesiastical\npowers, authorities, duties and jurisdiction in the Islands of the Roman Catholic\nChurch vested in the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands.\n\nSection 50\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 30\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n50.\nCreation of corporation\n50. (1) Allen H. Vigneron, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands and\nhis successors in office shall be a corporation sole to have continuance forever\nand perpetual succession by the name of \u201cThe Roman Catholic Archbishop of\nthe Cayman Islands\u201d and possessed of a corporate seal, and by that name may\nsue and be sued in all Courts of the Islands.\n(1A) On July 14, 2000, by determination of the Roman Pontiff\u2019s Congregation for\nthe Evangelization of Peoples, responsibility for the Missio sui iuris of the\nCayman Islands was permanently transferred from the Roman Catholic\nArchbishop of Kingston to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit, His\nEminence, Adam Cardinal Maida, and his successors in office, as appointed by\nthe Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church and on January 5, 2009, by\nappointment of the Roman Pontiff, His Excellency, Allen H. Vigneron,\nsucceeded His Eminence, Adam Cardinal Maida, as Archbishop of Detroit and,\nconsequently, Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands.\n(2) No law or proceeding of the said corporation shall be invalidated by reason of\nany vacancy in the office mentioned in subsection (1) or by any defect in the\nappointment of any person to such office.\n(3) The seal of the said corporation shall be of such design and pattern as the\ncorporation may, from time to time, determine.\n50A. Application of assets and income\n50A. The assets and income of the corporation shall be applied exclusively in the\nfurtherance of the purposes of the corporation and no portion of the assets and income\nof the corporation shall be distributed as profit or dividend directly or indirectly to\nthe controllers, shareholders, owners or members of the corporation, unless the\ndistribution is intended for \u2014\n(a)  the legitimate purpose of compensating a person for services to further the\nactivities of the corporation; or\n(b)  paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the corporation.\n51.\nVesting of property\n51. (1) All lands and hereditaments and all goods, chattels and personal property in the\nIslands which, immediately prior to the 7th May, 1979 were legally or equitably\nthe property of, vested in or held in trust for the Roman Catholic Archbishop of\nKingston in the Islands are transferred to and vested in the Roman Catholic\nArchbishop of the Cayman Islands for the same estate and interest and to the\nextent to which the same were respectively held by or vested in the Roman\nCatholic Archbishop of Kingston immediately prior to the 7th May, 1979\nsubject to all trusts, mortgages, charges, rights, reservations or incumbrances, if\nany, affecting the same or any part thereof.\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 52\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 31\n\n(2) All property real and personal in the Islands including the property specified in\nsubsection (3) devised or bequeathed by will, conveyed, transferred or\notherwise given to the Roman Catholic Church in the Islands shall be held by\nand is vested in and deemed to be the property of the Roman Catholic\nArchbishop of the Cayman Islands.\n(3) The following is the property referred to in subsection (2) \u2014\nRegistration Section\nBlock\nParcel\nSouth Sound\n7C\n48\nSouth Sound\n7C\n115\nSouth Sound\n15B\n48\nMidland East\n57A\n15\nWest Bay North West\n4E\n180\nWest Bay North West\n4E\n701\nWest Bay North West\n4E\n704\nWest Bay North West\n4E\n796\nCayman Brac West\n96E\n207\nCayman Brac East\n107A\n7\n52.\nPowers of corporation\n52. The corporation constituted under this Part has power to \u2014\n(a)\nacquire, hold, purchase, receive, lease, possess and enjoy any lands or\nhereditaments whatsoever with absolute or provisional registered title in\nfee simple, leasehold or for any other estate or interest and all property\nreal, personal or mixed;\n(b) give grant, let, charge, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease,\nmortgage, sell, convey, transfer, assign, dispose of, turn to account or\notherwise deal with all or any of the property both present and future so\nheld or vested or any part thereof;\n(c)\nborrow, raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as may be\nthought fit, and in particular by the issue of debentures or scrip charged\nupon all or any of the property (both present and future) held by or vested\nin such corporation and to redeem and pay off any such securities; and\n(d) appoint an attorney or attorneys for such time and purposes and with such\npowers as may be stated in the instrument of appointment, to revoke any\nsuch appointment and to confer on any such attorney or attorneys\n\nSection 53\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 32\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\nappointed as aforesaid power to appoint a substitute in that attorney\u2019s or\ntheir stead.\n53.\nAppointment of officer\n53. On the appointment of any person to the office mentioned in section 50 the instrument\nof appointment or a copy thereof duly certified as such by the Roman Pontiff of the\nCatholic Church shall be recorded in the Public Records Office.\n54.\nVesting of personal property\n54. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, shares, stock, debentures,\ndebenture stock, scrip, bonds or other negotiable securities issued by a company\nincorporated in the Islands and any bonds, stocks, funds or other negotiable securities\nissued by the Government of the Islands or any public body or authority municipal or\nlocal in the Islands and any personal property, the precise situation of which cannot\nbe ascertained, hereafter bequeathed by will or otherwise given to the Roman Catholic\nChurch in the Islands shall be deemed to be given or bequeathed to the Roman\nCatholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands.\nPART 9 - United Church\n55.\nDefinitions in this Part\n55. In this Part \u2014\n\u201cChurch\u201d means the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and\nincludes its successors and any body or entity (by whatever name it may be\ncalled) for the time being exercising its functions;\n\u201cCorporation\u201d means the Cayman United Church Corporation or CUCC; and\n\u201cCouncil\u201d means the Cayman Islands Regional Mission Council of the United\nChurch in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and includes any body, Synod or\nmeeting (by whatever name it may be called), which for the time being,\nexercises in Grand Cayman the functions of the said Council.\n56.\nConstitution of body corporate\n56. The following persons, being persons approved by the Council, namely Wentworth\nLyndhurst Bodden, Vernon Lionel Jackson, Clarence Vernon Thompson, Reverend\nDoctor Albert Neil Banks and their successors to be appointed as hereinafter\nmentioned, shall be and are hereby created one corporation or body politic, to have\ncontinuance forever and perpetual succession by the name of \u201cThe Cayman United\nChurch Corporation\u201d and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,\nin all Courts of law or equity.\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 57\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 33\n\n57.\nPowers to remove members\n57. The Council may, without cause and without giving any reason therefor, remove any\nof the members of the said body corporate and substitute another or others.\n58.\nAppointment of successors\n58. The successors of the members of the corporation, as vacancies occur amongst such\nmembers by death, resignation, removal or otherwise and as soon thereafter as may\nbe found convenient, may be appointed by the Council \u2014\nProvided that the fact of any vacancies existing at any time among the members\nof the corporation shall not be held to affect the continuance of the corporation.\n59.\nNon-liability of members\n59. No member of the corporation shall be in any way personally responsible as such, or\nas a trustee of any of the lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels or effects, for the time\nbeing vested in the corporation, for or in respect of any debt due, owing or accruing,\nor hereafter to accrue, upon or in reference to such trust property, nor for any\ninvoluntary loss suffered by the corporation, or any member thereof, nor for more\nmoney than shall come into that member\u2019s hands, nor for any injury which may be\ndone by others to the said trust property or any part or parts thereof.\n60.\nCommon seal\n60. The corporation shall have a common seal, with such stamp and inscription to be\nmade thereon as the members for the time being of the corporation shall think proper\nto adopt; and it shall be lawful for them, from time to time, to break, alter or renew\nthe said seal, as they shall think proper.\n61.\nPower to make rules\n61. In respect of all matters within the province or discretion, or subject to the election,\ndecision, control or management of the corporation or the members thereof, it shall\nbe lawful for the corporation in a meeting, from time to time, to make such rules, in\nharmony with the purposes of the corporation, as may be deemed desirable for \u2014\n(a)\nconvening and adjourning the meetings of the corporation;\n(b) conducting its business;\n(c)\ncarrying into effect the trusts and powers vested in or conferred upon the\ncorporation;\n(d) recording its proceedings; and\n(e)\ngenerally the carrying out the objects of the corporation,\nand to revoke, alter, add or to modify all or any of such rules and all rules in\nforce shall be binding on the members of the corporation.\n\nSection 62\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 34\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n62.\nTemporary provisions\n62. (1) Until and except as such rules shall be so made and in force, and subject\nthereto \u2014\n(a)\nthe senior member of the corporation shall be the convener, with full\npowers as such; and for this purpose the members named therein shall rank\nin the order named in section 56;\n(b) in all cases of a difference of opinion, the decision of an absolute majority\nof the members for the time being of the corporation shall be deemed to be\nthe decision or act of the corporation; and\n(c)\nmembers may, in cases where personal attendance can be dispensed with,\nexpress their opinion in writing addressed to the convener, and the opinion\nso expressed may be recorded as the vote of the absentee member.\n(2) A decision or resolution of the Council shall, for the purposes of this Part, be\ndeemed to be the decision or resolution of an absolute majority of the members\nof Council for the time being.\n63.\nChurch property vested in corporation\n63. (1) The lands and hereditaments mentioned or referred to in subsection (2) and all\nthe estate and interest of all and every and any of the grantees named in the\nseveral deeds or entered as proprietors in the Register of Lands of the Islands\nmentioned in subsection (2), their heirs and assigns of and in the lands and\nhereditaments by such deeds or transfers or entered in such Register or any of\nthem vested in or granted to such grantees or such proprietors or any of them,\nfor any estate or interest, or mentioned so to be, and all other lands and\nhereditaments, if any, and all goods, chattels and personal property in the Islands\nwhich are now legally or equitably the property of the United Church in Jamaica\nand the Cayman Islands, the Jamaica Presbyterian Corporation or the Church or\nare held in trust for the purposes of the said bodies or are now held possessed,\nused, occupied or enjoyed on behalf of the Church or as Church property by the\nChurch or by the officials, ministers or members of the Church, or any of them,\nor by any person or persons holding under such officials, ministers or members,\nor any of them, are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, their\nsuccessors and assigns, subject to such rights, mortgages, charges, trusts or\nencumbrances and reservations, if any, affecting the same or any part thereof.\n(2) The following is the list of lands and hereditaments the subject of\nsubsection (1) \u2014\nRegistration Section\nBlock\nParcel\nGeorge Town Commercial\n5B\n109\nWest Bay South\n5B\n296\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 63\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 35\n\nWest Bay South\n5C\n55\nGeorge Town Commercial\nOPY\n61\nGeorge Town Central\n14BH\n150REM1\nSouth Sound\n15B\n49\nSouth Sound\n15B\n110\nSouth Sound\n15E\n90\nGeorge Town East\n20D\n42\nGeorge Town East\n20E\n114\nProspect\n22D\n191\nGeorge Town East\n23C\n55\nGeorge Town East\n23C\n56\nGeorge Town East\n23C\n57\nProspect\n23C\n58\nGeorge Town East\n23C\n97\nGeorge Town East\n23C\n98\nGeorge Town East\n23C\n99\nSavannah\n28D\n138\nSavannah\n28D\n316\nSavannah\n28D\n330\nLower Valley\n32B\n75\nLower Valley\n38D\n42\nLower Valley\n38E\n594\nBodden Town\n44B\n80\nBodden Town\n44B\n254\nBodden Town\n44B\n391\nNorth Side\n49C\n24\nNorth Side\n72C\n114\nEast End\n72C\n118\nEast End\n72C\n134\n\nSection 64\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 36\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\nEast End\n72C\n161\nEast End\n75A\n12\nLittle Cayman West\n83A\n151\n\n64.\nPowers of corporation\n64. The corporation has full power for the benefit and purposes of the Council or for any\nspecial purpose or purposes of or connected with them, or their work in the Islands\nany lands, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, real or personal property or any\nestate or interest therein to \u2014\n(a)\nacquire by purchase, transfer, donation, exchange, devise, bequest, grant,\ngift, conveyance or otherwise;\n(b) receive money on loan and borrow or raise money in such manner as the\ncorporation shall think fit and in particular by the issue of bonds,\ndebentures or debenture stock (perpetual or otherwise) and to secure the\nrepayment of any money borrowed, raised or owing by mortgage, charge\nor lien upon all or any of the property or assets of the corporation;\n(c)\ndraw, make, accept, indorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes,\nbills of exchange, debentures, bonds and other negotiable or transferable\ninstruments; and\n(d) do all other things as the Council may, from time to time, declare and\npublish in two issues of the Gazette or as may be deemed incidental or\nconducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them.\nThe objects specified in this Part and in each of the foregoing paragraphs shall be regarded\nas independent objects.\n65.\nTrusts upon which property held\n65. (1) All lands and hereditaments hereby vested in or which may hereafter, at any\ntime, be acquired by or become vested in the corporation shall be held, occupied,\npossessed and enjoyed, upon such general or special trusts, and for such general\nor special purposes, and with and subject to such general or special powers and\nprovisions, as shall, from time to time, or at any time or times, in respect of all\nor any of such lands, be described by resolution of the Council and until and\nsubject to such declarations, and so far as the same shall not extend upon the\ntrusts and for the purposes, and with and subject to the powers and provisions,\nmentioned and set forth in subsection (2).\n(2) The said purposes, powers and provisions are \u2014\n(a)\nupon trust, to permit and suffer the lands and hereditaments and the\nerections and buildings for the time being thereon, and their\nappurtenances, to be used and occupied for such purposes connected with\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 65\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 37\n\nthe United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands in the Cayman\nIslands or their Church or educational or training work in the Islands as the\nCouncil shall, from time to time, direct, appoint, sanction or approve;\n(b) to permit and suffer all and every such churches or places of religious\nworkshop, theological or educational training institutions, youth centres,\nschools, vestries, dwelling houses, offices, outrooms and other buildings\nand conveniences to be erected or built upon the said lands and\nhereditaments or, being built or erected, to be enlarged, altered, improved,\nrepaired, removed or pulled down, as and whenever the Council shall,\nfrom time to time, or at any time direct, sanction or approve;\n(c)\nto permit and suffer each and every church or place of religious worship\nfor the time being upon such lands and hereditaments to be used, occupied\nand enjoyed, solely as a place for the religious worship and service of God,\nthe preaching of the Gospel and expounding and teaching the Holy\nScriptures, according to the doctrines and usages professed and observed\nby the body of Christians known as the United Church in Jamaica and the\nCayman Islands;\n(d) to permit and suffer to officiate in each church or place of worship on the\nsaid lands, and to have the conduct, direction and management of the\nservices, worship and teaching therein, such minister, ministers or other\nperson or persons only as shall be thereunto for the time being duly\nappointed in accordance with the rules, regulations and practices of the\nUnited Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands or such person or\npersons as shall, from time to time, be thereunto requested by such minister\nso appointed as aforesaid;\n(e)\nto permit and suffer such dwelling-house on the said lands and\nhereditaments as shall or may, at any time, be assigned as a residence for\nthe minister in charge of or connected with any chapel or mission station\nof the said church, and the sub-offices and appurtenances thereof,\nincluding so much land as shall be attached thereto as incident to such\nresidence, to be used, occupied, possessed and enjoyed by the minister for\nthe time being in charge of, or appointed to or connected with, such church\nin accordance with such rules, regulations and practices as aforesaid, as a\nresidence for the minister and the minister\u2019s family;\n(f)\nto permit and suffer such parts of the said lands and hereditaments, if any,\nas may be set apart as a burial ground to be used by the ministers and\nmembers of the said church \u2014\nProvided nevertheless that the minister or persons already in charge of any\nchurch on the said lands, or any of them as the minister thereof shall be\ndeemed to be so in charge by the appointment and with the approval of the\nChurch aforesaid, but that whenever any authority of the Church having\njurisdiction over any minister or person in charge of any such lands shall,\n\nSection 66\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 38\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\nin the exercise of the powers committed to it, declare by any resolution or\nother official act any now existing or future appointment of any such\nminister or person in respect of the said lands, or any part thereof or of any\nchurch at an end, such minister or person shall thereupon absolutely cease\nto be entitled to the privileges or benefits of the trusts aforesaid;\n(g) to permit every church built on such lands to be used under the authority\nof the Council according to the doctrines and usages professed and\nobserved by the body of Christians known as the United Church in Jamaica\nand the Cayman Islands, and also to permit and suffer every such church\nbuilding and the lands associated with the church to be supervised and\nmaintained by the Board of that church, provided nevertheless that Council\nshall have the final authority in all matters relating to such churches; and\n(h) to permit and suffer every school, training institution, youth centre and\nother facility built on such lands to be used under the authority of Council\naccording to the doctrine and usages professed and observed by the body\nof Christians known as the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman\nIslands, and also to permit and suffer every such abovementioned\ninstitution to be superintended only by such Board of Governors or other\nBoard or Committee as shall be duly approved by Council, provided\nnevertheless, that the Council shall have the final authority in all matters\nreferring to such institutions as mentioned above \u2014\nProvided also that it shall be lawful for the corporation, in the manner, under the\ncircumstances and to the extent and subject to the limitations and with the\nsanctions or approvals provided or required by this Part but not otherwise, to\nconvey and assure, sell or exchange, or lease or otherwise deal with the said\nlands, hereditaments and premises, or any of them, or any part thereof.\n66.\nTransfer of other Church property\n66. In the case of any church or congregation in the Islands desiring to unite with the\nChurch, to adopt their principles and practices and submit to the jurisdiction and rules\nof the Church, the corporation may accept the transfer of the property of such church,\nto be held subject to the trusts from time to time affecting the property vested in the\ncorporation, and such transfer shall be made by the trustees of such property, under\nthe resolution of such church or congregation directing such transfer, duly passed at\na church meeting of such church or congregation by the like majorities and in like\nmanner as would authorise a sale of the same lands, or otherwise duly passed in\naccordance with the rules or practices of such church or congregation.\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 67\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 39\n\n67.\nPower to appoint attorneys\n67. It shall be lawful for the corporation, from time to time when and as it may be deemed\nnecessary or advisable, by deed to appoint a person or persons as the attorney or\nattorneys of the corporation, or of the members thereof, either generally, for a limited\nperiod or on specified conditions and without limiting the generality of the foregoing\nto \u2014\n(a)\ntake possession or care of, or manage or collect the rents of any property\nreal or personal for the time being vested, or claimed to be vested, in the\ncorporation;\n(b) enforce or carry into effect the trusts or provisions affecting or rating to\nany such property real or personal; and\n(c)\ncarry out the directions of the members of the corporation or of the Council\nin respect of the same trust premises or any of them, and such appointments\nand powers of attorney may, from time to time at the corporation\u2019s\npleasure, be revoked and determined by deed.\n68.\nPower to dispose of property\n68. The corporation may, from time to time, as may be deemed desirable, sell and dispose\nof, transfer, exchange, lease, rent out or convey any lands, hereditaments, buildings,\ngoods, chattels or effects for the time being vested in the corporation \u2014\n\nProvided that no land, hereditaments, buildings or real property shall be sold,\ndisposed of, exchanged, conveyed, leased or rented for any term longer than from\nyear to year without the expressed concurrence and approval of the Council.\n69.\nApplication of proceeds of property\n69. All rents, issues and profits of the lands and hereditaments vested in or acquired by\nthe corporation, and all proceeds of such of them as shall be sold or exchanged, shall\nbe paid to the Treasurer of the Council for the purposes of the Church in the Islands.\n70.\nExecution of deeds\n70. No deed or transfer of land purporting to be executed by the corporation shall be of\nany force or validity unless it is sealed with the corporate seal thereof and\ncountersigned by at least two of the members of the corporation, nor unless, in cases\nwhere the concurrence of the Council is required, the resolution of the Council, duly\nsigned by the Chairperson and the Regional Deputy General Secretary thereof,\nevidencing such concurrence, is annexed to such deed or incorporation therein.\n\nSection 71\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 40\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n71.\nReference of questions and disputes to Council\n71. In all cases of any question or dispute in reference to the trusts powers or provisions\naffecting any lands or hereditaments vested in or claimed to be vested in the\ncorporation, or the exercise or enforcement thereof, or in reference to the doctrines or\nusages of the Church in relation to any such lands, or the occupancy, charge or\nsuperintendence thereof, or any trusts or provisions affecting the same, or in reference\nto the members of the corporation, or in reference to the right of any minister or\nperson to occupy or of any board or committee to superintend, take or keep charge of\nany such lands or hereditaments, or any part thereof, or any buildings thereon, the\nsame shall be referred to the Council, and its decision thereon shall be absolutely\nbinding and conclusive as to such question or dispute.\n72.\nEvidence of acts\n72. For the purposes of this Part, any resolution, decision or document purporting to be\nsigned by the Chairperson and the Regional Deputy General Secretary of the Council\nand purporting to be proved by a Voluntary Declaration of such (as the case may be)\nshall be prima facie evidence of the official status of the parties signing the same, and\nalso of the facts therein stated, in all Courts of and elsewhere in the Islands.\n72A. Assets and income\n72A. (1) The assets and income of the Church shall be applied exclusively for the\nfurtherance of the purposes of the Church.\n(2)  No portion of the assets and income of the Church shall be distributed as profit\nor dividend directly or indirectly to the controllers, shareholders, owners or\nmembers of the Church, unless such distribution is intended for the legitimate\npurpose of compensating a person for services to further the activities of the\nChurch or paying for expenses incurred on behalf of the Church.\nPART 10 - Reservation of Rights\n73.\nReservation of rights\n73. Nothing in this Act shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the\nKing or of any bodies politic or corporate, or other person or persons, except such as\nare mentioned or referred to in this Act and except all persons claiming legally or\nbeneficially from, through or under them, or any of them.\n74.\nCabinet may amend by Order\n74. The Cabinet may, by Order, amend this Act in relation to \u2014\n(a)  a change of the name of a Church; and\n(b)  a change in the ownership of the real property listed under section 9, 21,\n32, 37, 42, 47, 51 or 63 in respect of the relevant Church,\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\nSection 74\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 41\n\nthat is incorporated under this Act.\nPublication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 28th\nday of January, 2026.\nKim Bulling\nClerk of Cabinet\n\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nENDNOTES\n\nc\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nPage 43\n\nENDNOTES\nTable of Legislation history:\nSL #\nAct\/Law #\nLegislation\nCommencement\nGazette\n32\/2025\n\nChurches Incorporation (Amendment) Act, 2025\n(Commencement) Order, 2025\n26-Aug-2025\nLG30\/2025\/s2\n\n7\/2025\nChurches Incorporation (Amendment) Act, 2025\n29-Aug-2025\nLG28\/2025\/s1\n\n56\/2020\nCitation of Acts of Parliament Act, 2020\n3-Dec-2020\nLG89\/2020\/s1\n\nChurches Incorporation Law (2007 Revision)\n9-Jul-2007\nG14\/2007\/s5\n\n33\/2006\nChurches Incorporation (Amendment) Law, 2006\n\n27-Dec-2006\nG26\/2006\/s4\n\nChurches Incorporation Law (1998 Revision)\n2-Feb-1998\nG3\/1998\/s1\n\n11\/1995\nChurch of God on Hospital Road (Amendment) Law,\n1995\n19-Dec-1995\nGE20\/1995\/s3\n\n16\/1988\nChurch on Hospital Road (Incorporation) Law, 1988\n13-Feb-1989\nG4\/1989\/s5\n14\/1984\n\nChurch of God (Universal) (Incorporation) Law, 1980\n(Commencement) Order, 1984 (sic)\n14-May-1984\nG10\/1984\/p1\n\n8\/1983\nChurch of God (Universal) (Incorporation) Law, 1983\n14-May-1984\nG11\/1983\/S8\n\n29\/1979\nAnglican Church of the Cayman Islands Law, 1979\n8-Oct-1979\nG21\/1979\/S7\n\n14\/1979\nRoman Catholic Archbishop of the Cayman Islands\n(Incorporation and Vesting) Law, 1979\n7-May-1979\nG10\/1979\/S18\n\n20\/1978\nThe New Apostolic Church of the Cayman Islands\n(Incorporation) Law, 1978\n\n25-Sep-1978\nG20\/1978\/S5\n\n31\/1977\nUnited Church Incorporation Law, 1977\n19-Dec-1977\nG26\/1977\/S9\n\n12\/1974\nCayman Islands Mission of Seventh-Day Adventists\n(Incorporation) Law, 1974\n8-Aug-1974\nGN No. 159 of\n1974\n\n14\/1972\nNew Testament Church of God (Incorporation) Law,\n1972\n29-Sep-1972\nGN No. 183 of\n1972\n\nENDNOTES\nChurches Incorporation Act (2026 Revision)\n\nPage 44\nRevised as at 31st December, 2025\nc\n\n(Price: $8.80)","akn_extracted_at":"2026-06-22 15:30:56.92267+00","cms_id":"1988-0016","law_type":"principal","year":"1988","number":"16","title":"Churches Incorporation Act","status":"in_force"},"provenance":{"files":[{"file_id":"5843","expr_id":"697","kind":"akn_xml","filename":"1988-0016_2026 Revision.akn.xml","source_url":null,"storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/PRINCIPAL\/1988\/1988-0016\/1988-0016_2026 Revision.akn.xml","content_md5":"c94820423112ed76d81a4ffc49598525","byte_size":"89587","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-22 15:30:58.114277+00"},{"file_id":"1393","expr_id":"697","kind":"pristine_pdf","filename":"1988-0016_2026 Revision.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/PRINCIPAL\/1988\/1988-0016\/1988-0016_2026 Revision.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/pristine\/PRINCIPAL\/1988\/1988-0016\/1988-0016_2026 Revision.pdf","content_md5":"eba84e610301f3c71cc9e41c7df4e470","byte_size":"612629","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-21 23:09:34.121285+00"},{"file_id":"1394","expr_id":"697","kind":"working_pdf","filename":"1988-0016_2026 Revision.pdf","source_url":"\/cms\/images\/LEGISLATION\/PRINCIPAL\/1988\/1988-0016\/1988-0016_2026 Revision.pdf","storage_path":"\/Users\/q\/kyleg-data\/working\/PRINCIPAL\/1988\/1988-0016\/1988-0016_2026 Revision.pdf","content_md5":"eba84e610301f3c71cc9e41c7df4e470","byte_size":"612629","http_last_modified":null,"fetched_at":"2026-06-21 23:09:34.121285+00"}],"paragraph_count":66,"latest_history":null},"quality":{"expr_id":"697","doc_id":"697","quality_state":"needs_review","quality_score":"76","needs_human_review":"t","deterministic_categories":"{duplicate_text,page_header_footer_noise}","llm_categories":"{truncated_text,other}","repair_actions":"{coalesce_fragmented_ocr_lines,collapse_duplicate_text,manual_review,reextract_full_text,strip_page_furniture}","finding_severity_counts":"{\"low\": 1, \"medium\": 1}","finding_summary":"Sample shows likely truncation at Section 32 and stray 'c' characters; requires verification of full text extraction.","assessed_at":"2026-06-22 15:29:44.915443+00","updated_at":"2026-06-22 15:29:44.915443+00"}}