1Old Colonists' Association Act 1947

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documentsi Version No. 001 Old Colonists' Association Act 1947 Act No. 5214/1947 Version incorporating amendments as at 8 August 2000 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page

1. Short title construction and citation 2
2. Modification of application of future donations etc. 2
3. Consequential repeal of Act 3 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 4
4. General Information 4
5. Table of Amendments 5
6. Explanatory Details 6

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1 Version No. 001 Old Colonists' Association Act 1947 Act No. 5214/1947 Version incorporating amendments as at 8 August 2000 An Act relating to the Funds of the Old Colonists' Association of Victoria. Preamble WHEREAS by section one of an Act passed in the forty-sixth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria intituled "An Act to establish and regulate a Permanent Fund in connexion with the Old Colonists' Association of Victoria"1 as modified by the Old Colonists' Association Act 1938 there was established by law and rendered indefeasible and vested in the trustees for the time being of the Old Colonists' Association of Victoria (hereinafter called "the Association") a permanent fund consisting inter alia initially of the whole, and from the thirty-first day of October One thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight three-quarters, of all donations and bequests not otherwise specially directed by the donors thereof to be applied: AND WHEREAS by section two of the first- mentioned Act2 it is provided that except for the interest arising therefrom such permanent fund may not be appropriated in payment of any of the objects of the Association as set forth in the preamble to the said Act: AND WHEREAS the interest arising from such permanent fund and such other moneys (not being part of such permanent fund) as are available for carrying out the objects of the Association are now insufficient for that purpose: AND WHEREAS in order to make an increased amount available for the carrying out of the objects

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary DocumentsAct No. 5214/1947 Old Colonists' Association Act 1947 2 of the Association it is expedient to vary the manner in which future donations bequests and legacies shall be applied by providing that all of such future donations bequests and legacies as are not directed to be specially applied by the donors thereof together with the whole amount of donations entitling persons to be life governors and of subscriptions paid to the Association by governors may be applied towards the carrying out of the objects of the Association hereinbefore mentioned: BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):