{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-federation-england-and-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-federation-england-and-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1140",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Federation (England and Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-federation-england-and-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Trustees of Federation property and funds",
  "text": "(1) Each branch board must appoint in accordance with Federation rules three trustees in whom the branch fund and branch property is to be vested.\n(2) The national board must appoint in accordance with Federation rules three persons as trustees (“the national trustees”) in whom the national fund and national property is to be vested.\n(3) Federation rules must make provision for the term of office of the national trustees, and the manner in which vacancies among the national trustees are to be filled.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5) where Federation funds are vested in trustees in accordance with this regulation those trustees must not invest the funds or vary any investment except in pursuance of the powers of investment conferred on trustees generally by the Trustee Act 2000 and in accordance with the directions of the Federation body which appointed them.\n(5) Where Federation property or Federation funds are vested in 3 trustees in accordance with this Regulation, any 2 of those trustees are to have the like powers to deal with that property or those funds as they would have had if they had been the sole trustees of the property or funds.\n(6) The national fund and property mentioned in paragraph (2) may, at the direction of the national board, be used by way of investment in the building of property, whether to provide office accommodation for the Federation or otherwise.\n(7) The national board may, for any of the purposes authorised under these Regulations or Federation Rules, establish a limited company and the Federation property mentioned in paragraph (2) may, at the direction of the national board, be used to establish, administer and fund such a company.\n(8) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) “branch property” is Federation property which is held by or on behalf of a branch, or in respect of which the branch is the beneficial owner;\n(b) “national property” is Federation property which is not branch property.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 31.12.2017, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c.29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1140/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:06:03.500460+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."
}