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Charitable Trusts Act 1957

Incorporation of trust boards

9: Manner in which society may authorise application

You could also call this:

“How a group can agree to create a trust board”

You can apply to incorporate a trust board if your society authorises it in one of these ways:

  1. Most of the members of your society agree to it.

  2. Most of the people at a society meeting vote to do it. For this to count, you need to tell everyone in your society about the meeting and what it’s for. The person in charge (called the Registrar) needs to think you gave enough warning about the meeting.

  3. Your society’s rules say it’s okay, or there’s another way in the rules to decide.

Any of these ways is fine for getting permission to apply.

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Part 2 Incorporation of trust boards

9Manner in which society may authorise application

  1. For the purposes of section 7, an application shall be deemed to be authorised by a society, if—

  2. it is authorised by a majority of the members of that society; or
    1. a resolution authorising the making of the application is passed by a majority of those present at a meeting of that society, and the Registrar is satisfied that such notice of intention to hold that meeting and of its purpose was given as may be reasonable in the circumstances; or
      1. the application is authorised by the rules of the society or by any other means provided in those rules.

        Notes
        • Section 9: amended, on , by section 262 of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 (2022 No 12).