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Charitable Trusts Act 1957

Schemes in respect of charitable funds raised by voluntary contribution

43: Convening meeting of contributors

You could also call this:

“Rules for calling a meeting of people who donated to a charity”

If you want to call a meeting of people who have given money or goods for a charitable purpose, you need to follow some rules. You will need to put an advertisement in the newspaper. This advertisement needs to be approved by the Attorney-General.

In the advertisement, you must explain what the money is for and any new ideas for how to use it. You also need to tell people if you want to change how the trustees can use the money or how they look after it. You have to explain why you want to make these changes.

You must also tell people in the advertisement that they have a right to do something about this. This right is explained in section 49 of the law.

The advertisement needs to say when and where the meeting will happen. The meeting can’t be less than one month from when you first put the advertisement in the newspaper. The meeting should be in the place where most of the money was collected.

You need to put the advertisement in one or more newspapers that lots of people read in the areas where people gave money. You have to put the advertisement in the newspaper at least three times. There should be at least six days between each time you put it in.

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Part 4 Schemes in respect of charitable funds raised by voluntary contribution

43Convening meeting of contributors

  1. The moving contributor or money holder (in this Part referred to as the convener) may call together a meeting of the contributors of money or goods as aforesaid by advertisement in a form approved by the Attorney-General and in the following manner:

  2. the advertisement shall identify the money, and shall specify every newly proposed charitable purpose and every proposal for extending or varying the powers of the trustees or of prescribing or varying the mode of administering the trust and shall state the reason for every proposal relating to any new charitable purpose or to the powers of the trustees or the mode of administering the trust:
    1. the advertisement shall draw attention to the right conferred on contributors by section 49:
      1. the day, time, and place of meeting shall be mentioned in the advertisement, the day being not less than 1 month from the date of the first advertisement, and the place being the place or the most populous of the places where the money was raised:
        1. the advertisement shall be inserted in 1 or more of the daily newspapers of large circulation in each locality within which the contributions were received:
          1. the advertisement shall be inserted at least 3 times with an interval of not less than 6 days between any 2 insertions.

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            • 1908 No 164 s 35