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PART XN.I.ENDOWMENTS AND OTHER TRUST PROPERTY, ETC.

Certain property of voluntary organisationsN.I.

86.—(1) Where any property is—

(a)vested in any voluntary organisation formed for the purpose of providing any services similar or related to services which Health and Social Services Boards[F1 or HSS trusts] are authorised or required to provide; or

(b)held by any persons on trust for such an organisation or for any specific purposes connected with such an organisation;

then, notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law or anything contained in the constitution or rules of the organisation or in any order of court, deed, will or other instrument relating to the organisation, that property may, with the approval of the Attorney-General, be transferred to a Health and Social Services Board[F1, an HSS trust or the trustees for an HSS trust (in this Article referred to as “the transferee”)] on such terms as may be agreed between[F1 the transferee] and the organisation or, as the case may be, the trustees with a view to the property being held or used by[F1 the transferee] for purposes similar to the purposes for which it was previously held or used.

(2) The power to make an agreement under paragraph (1) shall be construed as including power, exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like consents and conditions, to vary the terms of that agreement.

(3) Where the Attorney-General is satisfied that an organisation is no longer in existence or, as the case may be, the trustees are dead, he may consent to the variation of the terms of an agreement under paragraph (2).