The Charities (The Rochester Bridge Trust) Order 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order relates to the Charity known as The Rochester Bridge Trust. The Charity is established for the maintenance and improvement of the two adjacent bridges known as the Rochester Bridge and of the Medway Tunnel, and for purposes connected with the River Medway and for the promotion of such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined in the United Kingdom, primarily in the County of Kent. By a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners made on 1st June 1999 under section 16 of the Charities Act 1993, the Court was reconstituted and provided with up-to-date objects and powers for the regulation of the Charity.

The Scheme in effect removes the restrictions imposed on the Court’s powers of leasing by the Rochester Bridge Act 1846, by repealing the provisions of that Act and amending clause 5(1) of the said Scheme of 1st June 1999. It also repeals the remaining provisions of the Rochester Bridge Amendment Act 1853 as these are now redundant.