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KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the establishment and functioning of the King
George VI Northern Ireland Youth Council; to authorise and give
effect to an agreement for conveying to that Council certain lands
in May Street in the City of Belfast and for the erection thereon
by that Council of a building as a memorial to His late Majesty
King George the Sixth and for use as a Youth Centre; and for
purposes connected with the matters aforesaid or any of them.
[12th December 1957]
Establishment of the Council.

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
SECT 1

1.(1) As from the passing of this Act there shall be established a
body to be known as King George VI Northern Ireland Youth Council
(in this Act referred to as "the Council").

(2) The provisions of the First Schedule shall apply to the
Council.

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
SECT 2
Functions of the Council.

2.(1) The general functions of the Council (to the extent only that
such functions are charitable) shall be:

(a)to encourage the development of body, mind and spirit through
physical and cultural activities, and to inculcate qualities of
leadership and, especially, to promote the well-being of young people
through any form of physical or cultural activity;

(b)to provide or assist in the provision of facilities and services
for, or in connection with, any form of physical or cultural
activity and for encouraging social intercourse and well-being
generally including the provision of facilities for training
whole-time and voluntary coaches, leaders and instructors for youth
organisations, institutions controlled or assisted by local education
authorities and other institutions or bodies concerned with the
well-being of young people;

(c)to undertake trust business for the benefit of any such
organisation, institution or body as aforesaid or any sports club or
athletic or physical training or cultural association, including the
holding of land as custodian or trustee; and

(d)to do all such other things as the Council may consider
conducive to the carrying out of any one or more of its functions
under this Act and which shall be consistent with the objects of
the national memorial to His late Majesty King George the Sixth.

(2) Without prejudice to sub-section (1) it shall be a specific
function of the Council

(a)to enter into and carry into effect an agreement (in this Act
referred to as "the vesting agreement") with the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Belfast acting by the Council
as the Local Education Authority for the County Borough of Belfast
(in this Act referred to as "the Corporation") in terms of the
draft set out in the Second Schedule; and

(b)to apply any sums made available to the Council, by the Council
of the King George VI Foundation or otherwise, for the purposes of
any of the functions of the Council.

(3) The Council shall have and may exercise all such powers as are
reasonably necessary for or incidental to the carrying out of its
functions under this Act, including power to enter into and carry
out agreements for the provision by any other person of any
facility or service which the Council is authorised to provide.

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
SECT 3
Execution and operation of vesting agreement.

3.Subs.(1)(2) rep. by SLR 1980

(3) On the date of execution of the vesting agreement this
sub-section shall operate, without further assurance,

(a)to vest in the Council an absolute and indefeasible title to the
fee simple in possession of the lands described in paragraph 1 of
the vesting agreement (which are in that agreement and hereafter in
this Act referred to as "the May Street site") free from
encumbrances and freed and discharged from all trusts, powers or
conditions whatsoever to which the same are or may be subject under
section thirty-one of, or under the agreement set out in the
Schedule to, the Education Act (Northern Ireland), 1930, or under
the Indenture of Conveyance mentioned in the preceding sub-section or
otherwise howsoever arising; and

olPara.(b) rep. by SLR 1980

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
SECT 4
Exemption of vesting agreement from stamp duty.

4.(1) Section twelve of the Finance Act, 1895, shall not operate to
require the delivery to the Ministry of a copy of this Act or the
payment of stamp duty under that section on any copy of this Act.

(2) Stamp duty shall not be chargeable on the vesting agreement.

(3) Section nine of the Finance Act (Northern Ireland), 1936, shall
not apply to the vesting agreement.

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
SECT 5
Power to appoint new members of Council in certain events.

5. In case at any time there shall be fewer members of the
Council than the minimum number contemplated by the provisions of
the First Schedule it shall be lawful for the Ministry by notice
to call upon the remaining members of the Council (or such of them
as shall be resident in Northern Ireland) to fill the vacancies;
and in case of their being unwilling or unable to do so it shall
be lawful for the Ministry, after the expiration of two months from
the date of such notice, to appoint new members of the Council in
addition to the existing or acting members of the Council to the
intent that there may be the full minimum number of members of the
Council contemplated.

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
SECT 6
Provision for alteration of First Schedule.

6. The provisions of the First Schedule may be altered or amended
by the Council in such form and to such extent as may be approved
by the Ministry in writing.

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
SECT 7
Reports and returns by the Council.

7. The Council shall make such reports and returns, and give to
the Ministry such information as to the funds, property and income
under the control of the Council as the Ministry may from time to
time require.

KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL YOUTH COUNCIL ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1957 -
SECT 8
Short title.

8. This Act may be cited as the King George VI Memorial Youth
Council Act (Northern Ireland), 1957.

1.(1) The Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual
succession and a common seal and with capacity to acquire and hold
land ..., so however, that the Council shall not acquire any land
(other than the May Street site) without the consent of the
Ministry.

(2) The Council may, with the approval of the Ministry;

(a)sell, lease, surrender, mortgage, charge, or otherwise deal with
any land for the time being vested in the Council; and

(b)exchange any land for the time being vested in the Council;

(3) The Council may borrow, by way of temporary loan or overdraft
from a bank or otherwise, any sum which it may temporarily require:

(a)for the purpose of defraying expenses pending the receipt of
revenues receivable by it;

(b)for the purpose of defraying, pending the raising of a loan on
mortgage, expenses intended to be defrayed by means of the loan.

(4) The Council may accept donations and bequests and receive aid
from public funds and apply the same for the purposes of the
Council.

(5) The Council may erect buildings or reconstruct existing buildings
and carry out such other works as the Council shall think fit.

2. The Council may sue and be sued in its own name.

3.(1) The Council shall consist of not more than forty nor less
than twenty-five members.

(2) The Lord Mayor of Belfast, the Mayor of Londonderry, the
Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast and the Chairman
of the Youth Committee for Northern Ireland for the time being
shall be ex-officio members of the Council.

(3) Each of the following bodies shall be entitled from time to
time to appoint the number of members of the Council set opposite
the name of each body as representative or representatives of the
body making the appointment, and to remove any person so appointed
and to appoint another person in his place:

The Ulster Association of County Councils: 




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