Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989

49 Educational endowments

(1) Where, immediately before the incorporation date in relation to any school, an educational endowment is to any extent vested in an education authority solely for the purposes of the school, the endowment shall, on that date and to that extent, be transferred to and vest for the same purposes in the board of management of the school.

(2) Where—

(a) an educational endowment is to any extent vested in an officer of an education authority (whether by virtue of his office or otherwise) solely for the purposes of any school; and

(b) that school becomes a self-governing school,

the endowment shall to that extent be transferred to and vest in such person as may be nominated for the purpose by the board of management of the school with effect from the date when the board make the nomination.

(3) Where an educational endowment is vested in an education authority generally for the benefit of the schools or of any group of the schools in their area or for the benefit of the pupils attending those schools, the authority shall apply that endowment for the benefit of any of those schools which has become a self-governing school or, as the case may be, of the pupils attending any such school as if that school were still maintained by that authority.