# Edinburgh Merchant Company Order Confirmation 1996, Paragraph 110: Endowments trust may provide houses, etc., for beneficiaries


(1) The endowments trust may build, purchase, lease, alter and maintain and may fit up and furnish, wholly or partly houses, flats or other buildings, for the accommodation of beneficiaries, and may allow such beneficiaries in lieu of or in addition to the payment of their pension to occupy such houses, flats or other buildings during the pleasure of the endowments trust, or may enter into an arrangement with any other organisation having similar objects.
(2) The endowments trust may employ such persons as the endowments trust may consider necessary to assist and advise the beneficiaries.
(3) The endowments trust may defray all expenditure incurred by them, in the exercise of the powers conferred on them by this section, out of the endowments trust fund.
(4) The endowments trust may apply any money borrowed by them in the exercise of their powers, to the building or purchase of houses, flats or other buildings for the accommodation of beneficiaries or for any purpose connected therewith (to which capital may properly be applied).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1996/11/schedule/paragraph/110 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-merchant-company-order-confirmation-1996/schedule/paragraph-110
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