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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005/section-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005/section-50.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/10",
  "legislation_title": "Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Constitution and powers",
  "text": "(1) A SCIO's constitution must state its name and its purposes.\n(2) A SCIO's constitution must make provision—\n(a) about who is eligible for membership, and how a person becomes a member, and\n(b) for the appointment of 3 or more persons (“charity trustees”) who are to be charged with the general control of the SCIO's administration, and about any conditions of eligibility for becoming a charity trustee.\n(3) A SCIO's constitution must also provide for such other matters, and comply with such requirements, as are specified in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers.\n(4) A SCIO must use and apply its property in furtherance of its purposes and in accordance with its constitution.\n(5) Subject to anything in its constitution, a SCIO has power to do anything which is calculated to further its purposes or is conducive or incidental to doing so.\n(6) For the purposes of managing the affairs of a SCIO, its charity trustees may exercise all the SCIO's powers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 50 in force at 1.4.2011 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2011/20, art. 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/10/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:24.571875+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}