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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2, the Secretary of State may by order make such provision in relation to any charity as appears to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the abolition of the Greater London Council or the council of a metropolitan county, including provision for transferring to any person any property, rights, liabilities or functions relating to the charity which are vested in that council or in the holder of any office connected with that council, and provision for terminating any such rights, liabilities or functions.

Nothing in this section shall affect any power of Her Majesty, the court or any other person to alter the trusts of any charity.

In this section “charity”, “charitable purposes” and “charity trustees” have the same meaning as in F3the Charities Act 1993.