1985 Ed.]
Brewin Trust Fund
[CAP. 1077
1
CHAPTER 1077
BREWIN TRUST FUND
To make provision for the establishment of a trust fund to be known as the Brewin Trust Fund, and for the due administration thereof, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[4 March 1955.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Brewin Trust Fund Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"Chinese" means persons of the Chinese race;
"committee" means the committee appointed under section 5;
"widow" includes a concubine and a mother of a child not born in wedlock.
3. (1) There is hereby established a trust fund to be known as the Brewin Trust Fund, hereinafter referred to as the fund, which is vested in the Secretary for District Administration Incorporated as trustee. (Amended, L.N. 15/70 and L.N. 68/85)
(2) The fund shall consist of moneys and assets together with any sum accumulated by way of interest thereon, rents, dividends and such other moneys as may be paid into the fund and shall include also such other moneys and assets as may from time to time be acquired by the trustee on the trusts hereinafter set out.
4. The trustee shall hold and stand possessed of the fund upon trust to apply the same in such manner and to such extent as the committee may direct for the following objects-
(a) for the maintenance and benefit of Chinese widows and orphans who, being resident in the Colony, appear to the committee to require such maintenance and benefit; and
(b) for the maintenance and benefit of Chinese workmen, which expression shall include females, who having been employed in the Colony and become wholly or in part incapacitated for work by reason of age, sickness, disablement or otherwise, appear to the committee to require such maintenance and benefit.
5. (1) There shall be established a committee to be known as the Brewin Trust Fund Committee.
Originally 9 of 1955.
36 of 1956. 24 of 1966. L.N. 22/69. L.N. 15/70.
L.N. 226/76.
L.N. 67/85. L.N. 68/85.
L.N. 262 of 1989. L.N. 263 of 1989,
Short title.
Interpretation.
Establishment and vesting of fund.
Objects of the trust fund.
Establishment of committee.