In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:—

• “General Assembly” means the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland;

• “Theological chair” means the chair of any professor who for the time being is included as a professor in the faculty of theology or divinity in any of the Scottish Universities;

• “Former United Free Church College” means a college which, prior to the Union of the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland on the second day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, belonged to and was administered by the United Free Church of Scotland or which was associated with that church, and which since that date has belonged to and been administered by the Church of Scotland or has been associated with that church;

and other expressions shall have the like meaning as in the Universities (Scotland) Acts 1858 to 1922.