Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946

41 Power to vary trusts of property provided out of the Miners' Welfare Fund.

(1) Where trusts have been declared on which property representing an application of money standing to the credit of the Miners' Welfare Fund is to be held, and it appears to the Minister that purposes specified in subsection (1) of section twenty of the Mining Industry Act, 1920, would be better secured by a variation of the trusts, either as respects that property or as respects other property held on the same trusts or both, he may, subject to the provisions of this section, make provision for that variation by an order made by him.

(2) The Minister shall not make an order under this section as respects any property until he is satisfied that the substance of the proposed variation has been put before a meeting open to all persons for whose benefit in particular that property is held under the subsisting trusts and has been approved by a majority of such of those persons as were present at the meeting.

(3) Trusts as varied by an order under this section may be varied by a subsequent order made thereunder.

(4) Subsection (4) of section twenty-nine of the [15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 18.] Settled Land Act, 1925 (which relates to the sending to the Charity Commissioners, for record, of assurances of land to charitable uses) shall apply to an order under this section that relates to land, or to personal estate to be laid out in the purchase of land, as it applies to the instruments mentioned in that subsection.