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TRUSTEE APPOINTMENT ACT 1850 - SECT 1

Property acquired for religious or educational purposes, and conveyed to trustees or others, to vest in their successors for the time being without conveyance.

1.] Wherever freehold, leasehold, ... property in England or Wales has been or
hereafter shall be acquired by any congregation or society or body of persons
associated for religious purposes, or for the promotion of education, as a
chapel, meeting house, or other place of religious worship, or as a dwelling
house for the minister of such congregation, with offices, garden, and glebe,
or land in the nature of glebe, for his use, or as a schoolhouse, with
schoolmaster's house, garden, and playground, or as a college, academy, or
seminary, with or without grounds for air, exercise, or recreation, or as a
hall or rooms for the meeting or transaction of the business of such
congregation or society or body of persons, and wherever the conveyance,
assignment, or other assurance of such property has been or may be taken to or
in favour of a trustee or trustees to be from time to time appointed, or of
any party or parties named in such conveyance, assignment, or other assurance,
or subject to any trust for the congregation or society or body of persons, or
of the individuals composing the same, such conveyance, assignment, or other
assurance shall not only vest the freehold, leasehold, ... property thereby
conveyed or otherwise assured in the party or parties named therein, but shall
also effectually vest such freehold, leasehold, ... property in their
successors in office for the time being and the old continuing trustees, if
any, jointly, or if there be no old continuing trustees, then in such
successors for the time being wholly, chosen and appointed in the manner
provided or referred to in or by such conveyance, assignment, or other
assurance, or in any separate deed or instrument declaring the trust thereof,
or if no mode of appointment be therein set forth, prescribed, or referred to,
or if the power of appointment be lapsed, then in such manner as shall be
agreed upon by such congregation or society or body of persons, upon such and
the like trusts, and with, under, and subject to the same powers and
provisions, as are contained or referred to in such conveyance, assignment, or
other assurance, or in any such separate deed or instrument, or upon which
such property is held, and that without any transfer, assignment, conveyance,
or other assurance whatsoever, anything in such conveyance, assignment, or
other assurance, or in any such separate deed or instrument, contained to the
contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that in case of any appointment of
a new trustee or trustees of or the conveyance of the legal estate in any such
property being made as heretofore was by law required, the same shall be as
valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes as if this Act had not been
passed.

S.2 rep. by SLR 1976

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