{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/21-22/83",
  "legislation_title": "Universities (Scotland) Act 1858",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Nothing in this Act to affect certain trusts.",
  "text": "Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to affect any trusts now vested in and administered by the senatus academicus of any University or college, or in the principal and professors, or any of them, for purposes unconnected with such University or college; and any such trusts as are now held and administered by the senatus academicus or the principal and professors of the University and King’s College of Aberdeen or of Marischal College and University, for purposes unconnected with such Universities and colleges, shall from and after the date at which this Act shall come into operation, as regards the University of Aberdeen, be vested in and administered by the senatus academicus of the University of Aberdeen; and any trust now administered, in whole or in part, by the principal of either of the said universities and colleges, or by any professor or professors thereof, shall from and after the date aforesaid be in like manner administered, in whole or in part, by the principal of the University of Aberdeen, or, as the case may be, by the professor or professors who in the said University shall hold the same professorship as the said professor or professors of King’s College or Marischal College respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/21-22/83/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:14:15.616010+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."
}