{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/educational-endowments-fife-region-transfer-scheme-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/educational-endowments-fife-region-transfer-scheme-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/306",
  "legislation_title": "The Educational Endowments (Fife Region) Transfer Scheme Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/educational-endowments-fife-region-transfer-scheme-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Consequential provisions for interpretation of governing instruments of educational endowments",
  "text": "(1) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference, however expressed, in the governing instrument of any educational endowment to—\n(a) Fife Regional Council;\n(b) Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy or North East Fife District Council;\n(c) the county council of the former county of Fife;\n(d) the council of any large or small burgh or district comprised in that former county before 16th May 1973, shall be construed as a reference to Fife Council.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference, however expressed, in the governing instrument of any educational endowment to—\n(a) a councillor of any council referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above, or the holder of a specified office held by such councillor, shall be construed as a reference to a councillor of Fife Council nominated by that Council for the purpose;\n(b) an officer, or any specified officer, of a council referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above shall be construed as a reference to the proper officer of Fife Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/306/schedule/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:52:37.743329+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."
}