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Anzac Day Act 1966

5: Anzac Day trusts

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"Setting up a trust to support Anzac Day charitable work"

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You can set up a trust for Anzac Day with the New Zealand Returned Services' Association. They can receive donations and grants for charitable purposes. They must tell the public what these purposes are before Anzac Day. You can also set up a trust with a local Returned Services' Association. They can work with other organisations to do this. They can receive donations and grants from people and companies. The trustees can get donations from people who make a profit on Anzac Day. They can also get donations from other people and public bodies. The trustees can decide how to use the money and property they receive. The money and property must be used for the charitable purposes that the trustees said they would use it for. The trustees have the power to make decisions about the money and property. They must use it for the purposes they told the public about.

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5Anzac Day trusts

  1. The New Zealand Returned Services' Association (Incorporated) may, either itself or acting in conjunction with any organisation not prohibited from so doing, take steps to set up a trust in accordance with this section, and may appoint trustees to receive donations and grants from time to time for such specified charitable purposes as are publicly notified by the trustees before Anzac Day in any year as the purposes for which donations and grants to them in that year will be applied.

  2. Any local Returned Services' Association affiliated with the New Zealand Returned Services' Association (Incorporated) may, either itself or acting in conjunction with any organisation not prohibited from so doing, take steps to set up a trust in accordance with this section, and may appoint trustees to receive donations and grants from time to time for such specified charitable purposes as are publicly notified by the trustees before Anzac Day in any year as the purposes for which donations and grants to them in that year will be applied.

  3. Any such trustees may receive donations and grants from persons, companies, and societies, whether incorporated or not, carrying out activities on Anzac Day at a profit, and from other persons and public bodies.

  4. Subject to the provisions of subsection (5), in any case where steps are taken under this section to set up a trust, the body or bodies taking the steps may execute an instrument appointing trustees of all donations and grants made to the trustees under this section and providing for the administration of the money and property to be held by the trustees and for their powers in respect thereof.

  5. All money and property held by any trustees who are appointed as aforesaid shall be applied at the discretion of the trustees for the specified charitable purposes for which they were received as aforesaid by the trustees.