Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy Charities Scheme Confirmation Act 1958
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6 & 7 ELIZ. 2
Corporation
of Ch. ix
the
Sons
of
the Clergy
Charities Scheme
Confirmation Act, 1958
CHAPTER ix
An Act
to
confirm a Scheme of
the
Charity Commissioners
for the application or management of certain Charities
known as the Corporation of the Sons of
the
Clergy.
[14th May 1958.]
W
HEREAS the Charity Commissioners in their Report to
Her Majesty of their proceedings during the year one
thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven reported that they
had approved and certified a Scheme for the application or
management of the Charities:
And whereas the charities concerned are specified in the
Schedules to the Scheme so approved and certified:
And whereas it is expedient that the Scheme as the same is
fully set out and defined in the schedule to this Act should be
confirmed:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as
follows:
—
1.
The said Scheme is hereby confirmed: Confirmation
of*
Scheme
Provided always that nothing in this Act or in the said Scheme
shall be held to interfere with the ordinary jurisdiction over
endowed charities now exercisable by the High Court of Justice
and the Charity Commissioners.
2.
This Act may be cited as the Corporation of the Sons
Short
title.
of the Clergy Charities Scheme Confirmation Act, 1958. 1
Ch. ix Corporation of 6 & 7 ELIZ. 2
the Sons of the Clergy
Charities Scheme
Confirmation
Act, 1958
SCHEDULE
SCHEME FOR THE APPLICATION OR MANAGEMENT OF THE FOLLOWING
CHARITIES
:
—
The several Charities specified in the schedules to this Scheme.
administered by the body corporate called the Governours of
the Charity for Releefe of the Poor Widdowes and Children of
Clergymen (commonly known as the Corporation of the Sons of
the Clergy)
1.
Administration of Charities.—The above-mentioned Charities
and the respective endowments thereof shall be administered and
managed subject to and in conformity with the provisions of this
Scheme by the body corporate called the Governours of the Charity
for Releefe of the Poor Widdowes and Children of Clergymen
(commonly known as the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy)
the Trustees
thereof.
2.
Interpretation.—In this Scheme the following words shall have
the following
meanings:
—
" Clergymen " shall mean bishops, deacons and priests of the
Church of England who while in Holy Orders have been
engaged in ecclesiastical, educational, charitable or other
religious work whether beneficed or not;
" Child " shall include an adopted child.
3.
Vesting,—In so far as the land specified in the First Schedule
hereto and belonging to the Charity of the Reverend James Palmer
is not already vested in the said body corporate the said land is
hereby vested in the said body corporate for all the estate and
interest therein belonging to or held in trust for that Charity.
4.
Branches.—The
Charities specified in the schedules hereto and
the respective endowments thereof shall be administered and
managed in seven several branches namely the Widows' Branch,
the Daughters' Branch, the Widows or Daughters' Branch, the
Children and Orphans' Branch, the Clergy Branch, the Sons' Branch
and the General Eleemosynary Branch.
5.
The Widows'
Branch.—(1)
The Widows' Branch shall consist
of the Charities and the respective endowments thereof specified in
the First Schedule hereto.
(2) The Trustees shall apply the clear yearly income of the
Widows' Branch in giving assistance in grants, allowances or pensions
to widows (who have not remarried) of clergymen who from age,
ill-health, infirmity or other misfortune are in need of assistance.
In special cases to be approved by the Charity Commissioners the
Trustees may give assistance to such persons who having been
widows of clergymen have or had remarried.
(3) In applying the said income of the Widows' Branch the
Trustees may make grants to almshouses and other charitable insti-
tutions or organisations upon such terms as will ensure that their
benefits are available for such widows as aforesaid.
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