TUVALU

STATE CHURCH (DECLARATION) ACT 1992
(Act 2 of 1993)

I assent

Sir Toaripi Lauti, PC, GCMG
Governor-General

29th March 1993

AN ACT to declare the Ekalesia a Kelisiano Tuvalu as the State Church of Tuvalu.

(Commencement:__________)

ENACTED by the Parliament of Tuvalu –

Short title and commencement 

1. This Act may be cited as the State Church (Declaration) Act 1992 and shall come into effect on such date as the Minister shall by notice appoint.

State Church

2. (1) The Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu is hereby declared to be the State Church of Tuvalu.

(2) The State Church, on request by the Minister, shall have the privilege of performing special services on major national events.

(3) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the State Church shall have the same powers, rights and privileges normally enjoyed by any other religious body under any other law.

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I certify that this Bill is in order for the Governor-General's assent as Head of State.

Feleti P. Teo 
Attorney-General 
17th March 1993 

Published by exhibition at the public office of the Government this 	day of March 1993.

Feue Tipu
Acting Secretary to Government 

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STATE CHURCH (DECLARATION) ACT 1992 
(Act 2 of 1993)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
(This memorandum is not part of the Act)

The purpose of the Act is to declare the Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu as the State Church of Tuvalu. The State Church would on major national events given the privilege of conducting special services. Apart from that, the State Church would enjoy the same rights, powers and privileges normally enjoyed by any other religious body.

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