Part 6Cy-près powers and assistance and supervision of charities by court and Commission

Cy-près powers and variation of charters

66Unknown and disclaiming donors: supplementary

(1)

For the purposes of sections 63 and 65, charitable purposes are to be treated as failing if any difficulty in applying property to those purposes makes that property or the part not applicable cy-près available to be returned to the donors.

(2)

In sections 63 to 65 and this section—

(a)

references to a donor include persons claiming through or under the original donor, and

(b)

references to property given include the property for the time being representing the property originally given or property derived from it.

(3)

Subsection (2) applies except in so far as the context otherwise requires.

(4)

In sections 63 and 65 “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Commission.

(5)

Any such regulations are to be published by the Commission in such manner as it thinks fit.

(6)

Any such regulations may, as respects the advertisements which are to be published for the purposes of section 63(1)(a), make provision as to the form and content of such advertisements as well as the manner in which they are to be published.