7Construction of wills etc affecting the College

#### 7 Construction of wills etc affecting the College 7 Construction of wills etc affecting the College > Whenever by any will, deed, or other instrument taking effect prior to, at, or after the date of the passing of this Act any property, real or personal, has been or shall be devised, bequeathed, given, granted, released, conveyed, or appointed, or has been or shall be declared or directed to be held upon trust for the benefit of Newington College or any of its objects or purposes or for the council thereof for the purpose of the endowment of the said college or any of its objects or purposes or of any scholarship therein or otherwise, every such will, deed, or other instrument and other devise, bequest, legacy, testamentary disposition, gift, grant, conveyance, transfer, assignment, appointment, or declaration of trust therein contained shall be read and construed and operate and take effect as if the council of Newington College hereby incorporated had been named and referred to therein instead of the said collegiate school or any of its objects or purposes or the council of the said recited collegiate school referred to or intended so to be in the said recited indenture of the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and the receipt of the said council of Newington College, or of any person appointed by such council from time to time in that behalf, for any such bequest, legacy, testamentary disposition or gift shall be a sufficient discharge to the person or persons liable to pay, deliver, or transfer any money or personal property under such will, deed, or other instrument, and all property, real or personal, so devised, bequeathed, given, granted, released, conveyed, or appointed or declared or directed to be held upon such trusts for the benefit of Newington College or any of its objects or purposes or otherwise as abovementioned shall, subject to this Act and to the trusts of such will, deed, or other instrument, and subject to any directions to the contrary therein contained so far as the same are capable of taking effect, be under the direction and control of the said council of Newington College. > > **s 7:** Am Newington College Council (Amendment) Act 1949, sec 2 (c).