114Acceptance of gifts.N.I.
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section a council may accept, hold and administer any gift of property, whether real or personal—
(a)for any local public purpose, or
(b)for the benefit of the inhabitants of its district or of any part of its district,
and may provide and maintain any works, facility, amenity, equipment or thing incidental to or consequential on the exercise of the powers conferred by this section.
(2)This section shall not authorise the acceptance by a council of property which, when accepted, would be held in trust for an ecclesiastical charity or an eleemosynary charity.