PART 4General financial provisions

Powers of the Board

I145Status as trustee

1

The Board may accept a transfer of real or personal property subject to existing charitable trusts for the benefit of qualifying persons and may administer the property as trustee.

2

The Board may act as custodian trustee, or otherwise as trustee for limited purposes only, of real or personal property subject to charitable trusts for the benefit of qualifying persons; and section 4(1) and (2) of the Public Trustee Act 1906 (which makes provision as to custodian trustees) applies to the Board as it applies to the Public Trustee.

3

Each of the following is a “qualifying person”—

a

a retired clerk or church worker,

b

the surviving spouse or civil partner or a child or dependant of a deceased clerk or church worker.

4

The Board is to continue to be a trust corporation for the purposes of—

a

the Law of Property Act 1925;

b

the Settled Land Act 1925;

c

the Trustee Act 1925;

d

the Administration of Estates Act 1925;

e

the Senior Courts Act 1981.