Sinn Fein Funds Act, 1947

Definitions.

1.—In this Act—

the expression “the Bank” means the Provincial Bank of Ireland, Limited;

the expression “the Board” means Bord Cistí Sinn Féin established by section 2 of this Act;

the expression “the Court funds” means the investments and moneys representing the moneys lodged in Court on the 4th day of February, 1924, by the deceased trustees to the credit of a matter entitled “In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division. In the Matter of the Trusts of the Funds of the Sinn Féin Organisation established in the year 1905 and reconstituted in the year 1917, And in the Matter of the Trustee Act, 1893 ” and the accumulations on the moneys so lodged;

the expression “the deceased trustees” means Eamonn Duggan, and Jennie Wyse Power, both deceased, formerly treasurers of the Sinn Féin Organisation;

the expression “the moneys on deposit in the Bank” means the moneys lodged on deposit in the Bank in the joint names of the deceased trustees and the interest accrued due thereon;

the expression “the pending action” means the action pending in the High Court (1942, No. 31. P) wherein Margaret Buckley and others are plaintiffs and the Attorney General and Charles Stewart Wyse Power are defendants;

the expression “the Trust Fund” means the fund to be established under section 9 of this Act.