{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-merchant-company-order-confirmation-1996/schedule/paragraph-111",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-merchant-company-order-confirmation-1996/schedule/paragraph-111.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/1996/11",
  "legislation_title": "Edinburgh Merchant Company Order Confirmation 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/edinburgh-merchant-company-order-confirmation-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/111",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "111",
  "heading": "Election of beneficiaries",
  "text": "(1) The endowments trust shall, annually on a date or dates to be fixed by them, elect the number of beneficiaries for which in the opinion of the endowments trust the free income of the endowments trust fund will provide and shall determine the benefits which each beneficiary may receive during the ensuing year or such shorter period as the endowments trust may determine.\n(2) Beneficiaries shall be designated Gillespie pensioners or Watherston donees or Gibb and Heriot pensioners as the endowments trust may decide when the beneficiary is elected.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1996/11/schedule/paragraph/111",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:48.524510+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."
}