{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-sites-act-1841/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-sites-act-1841/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/4-5/38",
  "legislation_title": "Schools Sites Act 1841",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/schools-sites-act-1841",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Estates now vested in trustees for the purposes of education may be conveyed to the minister and churchwardens.",
  "text": "And whereas schools for the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church, or in religious and useful knowledge, and residences for the masters or mistresses of such schools, have been heretofore erected, and are vested in trustees not having a corporate character: It shall be lawful for the trustees for the time being of such last-mentioned schools and residences, not being subject to the provisions of the Grammar Schools Act 1840, to convey or assign the same, and all their estate and interest therein, to such ministers and churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish within which the same are respectively situate and their successors as aforesaid, or, being situate within an ecclesiastical district not being a parish as herein after defined, then to the minister and church or chapel wardens of the church or chapel of such district, and their successors, in whom the same shall thereafter remain vested accordingly, but subject to and under the existing trusts and provisions respectively affecting the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1840 c. 77."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/4-5/38/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:39:25.090633+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."
}