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Charitable Trusts Act 1957

Miscellaneous provisions

51: Administration of schemes

You could also call this:

“How different groups can run charitable projects”

If you have a group of people who work together for a good cause and collect money from others to help, you can use that group to run a charitable project. This is allowed under the law.

The law also says that there are different ways to manage a charitable project. You can have:

  1. People who are already in charge of similar good causes
  2. Health New Zealand or a hospital board
  3. A company that’s already helping with other good causes
  4. Public Trust or other trustees chosen by law

These different people or groups can be put in charge of running the project and looking after the money. This gives you choices about who can help make your charitable project work.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions

51Administration of schemes

  1. Where any voluntary association has been constituted at any place for any charitable purpose within the meaning of Part 4, and the means for carrying out that purpose are raised by voluntary contributions from time to time, and the business of the association is carried on by office bearers elected by contributors or by a public meeting, it shall be lawful to provide in any scheme approved under Part 4 that the purposes of the scheme may in whole or in part be carried out, and the funds or parts thereof be administered, by any such voluntary association or by the office bearers for the time being of any such voluntary association.

  2. Without restricting the foregoing provisions of this section or the power to make any other provision for carrying out the purposes of any scheme or for administering any property, income, or money to which any scheme applies, it is hereby declared that any scheme approved under Part 3 or Part 4 may provide that the purposes of the scheme may in whole or in part be carried out, and that any property, income, or money to which the scheme applies may be administered, by—

  3. the trustees of any existing trust for any charitable purpose within the meaning of the Part of this Act under which the scheme is approved; or
    1. Health New Zealand or the board of trustees of any separate institution under the Hospitals Act 1957; or
      1. any corporation, or the governing body of any corporation, which is a trustee of any existing trust for any charitable purpose as defined in the Part of this Act under which the scheme is approved; or
        1. Public Trust or any trustees who could be appointed under the Trusts Act 2019.

          Compare
          • 1908 No 164 ss 28, 45, 49
          Notes
          • Section 51(2)(b): amended, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).
          • Section 51(2)(b): amended, on , pursuant to section 158(1) of the Hospitals Act 1957 (1957 No 40).
          • Section 51(2)(d): amended, on , by section 161 of the Trusts Act 2019 (2019 No 38).
          • Section 51(2)(d): amended, on , by section 170(1) of the Public Trust Act 2001 (2001 No 100).