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Section 14 Trustees empowered to sell or exchange lands or buildings.C9C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C8

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When any land or building shall have been or shall be given or acquired under the provisions of the said first-recited Act or this Act, or shall be held in trust for the purposes aforesaid, and it shall be deemed advisable to sell or exchange the same for any other more convenient or eligible site, it shall be lawful for the trustees in whom the legal estate in the said land or building shall be vested, by the direction or with the consent of the managers and directors of the said school, if any such there be, to sell or exchange the said land or building, or part thereof, for other land or building suitable to the purposes of their trust, and to receive on any exchange any sum of money by way of effecting an equality of exchange, and to apply the money arising from such sale or given on such exchange in the purchase of another site, or in the improvement of other premises used or to be used for the purposes of such trust; provided that where the land shall have been given by any ecclesiastical corporation sole, the consent of the bishop of the diocese shall be required to be given to such sale or exchange before the same shall take place: Provided also, that where a portion of any parliamentary grant shall have been or shall be applied towards the erection of any school, no sale or exchange thereof shall take place F1unless the Secretary of State consents.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words substituted by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45), Sch. 2 para. 1

Modifications

C1

S. 14 amended by Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40, SIF 41:1), ss. 101(1), 231(7), 235(6)

C2

The “said first-recited Act” means the Act 6 & & 7 Will. 4 c. 70.

C3

S. 14 modified (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 35, s. 131(2); S.I. 1994/507, art.3.

C4

S. 14 modified (E.W.) (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 60(6), 583(2) (with s. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39, para. 30).

C5

S. 14 modified (E.W.) (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56, ss. 297(2), 583(2) (with s. 1(4), 561, 562, Sch. 39, para. 30).

C6

S. 14 modified (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, s. 22, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 2(8) (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch.1.

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S. 14 modified (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31, ss. 28, 29, 31, Sch. 6 Pt. IV para. 16(7) (with ss. 138(9), 144(6)); S.I. 1999/2323, art. 2(1), Sch.1.

C8

S. 14 modified (E.) (25.5.2007) by School Organisation (Transitional Provisions) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1355), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 6(7)

C9

S. 14 explained by Reverter of Sites Act 1987 (c. 15, SIF 98:1), s. 6(2)