Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

358 Trusts vested in deacons, and &c.

Where any trust, management or direction of any charitable or other institution is vested in any number of deacons or in a deacon convener or convener of trades or in any dean of guild or other office bearers elected by the several crafts, trades, guildries or merchants or trades houses, then and in all such cases the persons so elected as such deacons, conveners, deans of guild or other, officers shall be and continue trustees and managers of such charities or institutions whether such persons are members of town council or not, and the town councils shall in no such case have power to elect from their own body any other trustees or managers in place of such deacons, conveners, deans of guild, or other officers:

Provided that in any burgh in which trades, councillors or merchant councillors are or may be ex officio trustees or directors of any such institutions or charities, the convenery or trades house and the guildry or merchants house in such burghs shall elect an equal number from their own bodies respectively to be such trustees or directors notwithstanding anything in this Act to the contrary.