• Preamble

  WHEREAS—

  • A. The St Peter's School Trust Board is a Board incorporated under The Charitable Trusts Act 1957 and administers St Peter's School at Cambridge:

  • B. The St Peter's School Trust Board Act 1985 defines the objects and powers of the Board and provides that the constitution of the Board is that set out in the Schedule of that Act subject to any alterations or additions lawfully made by the Board pursuant to and in accordance with clause 18 of that constitution:

  • C. Clause 10 of the constitution provides that the Board must from time to time appoint a Headmaster of the School on such terms and conditions as determined by the Board and also provides that no person is eligible for appointment as Headmaster of the School unless that person is a member of the Anglican Church or of a Protestant denomination:

  • D. The Board considers it desirable that it should be able to appoint either a man or a woman to the position of Principal of the School and that it should also have the power, in appropriate cases, to appoint to that position a person who is not a member of the Anglican Church or of a Protestant denomination:

  • E. Clause 18 of the constitution prohibits any alteration by the Board to clause 10:

  • F. The objects of this Act cannot be attained otherwise than by legislation:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: