Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

Trusts for benefit of the existing city or an added urban district.

28.—(1) Where any real or personal property is, immediately before the appointed day, vested in the City Corporation or in any other corporate body or any trustees, committee, or society upon trusts for educational or charitable purposes for the exclusive benefit of the Existing City or of the citizens or the inhabitants of the Existing City or of any particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants or upon trusts for educational or charitable purposes of which all citizens or all inhabitants of the Existing City or all members of any particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants are exclusively entitled to take advantage, then, on and after the appointed day, the benefit of such trusts shall (as the case may require) extend to the whole of the City or to all the citizens or all the inhabitants of the City or to the said particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants or be open to any citizen or any inhabitant of the City or any member of the said particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants.

(2) Where any real or personal property is, immediately before the appointed day, vested in the council of either of the added urban districts upon trusts for educational or charitable purposes for the exclusive benefit of such district or of the citizens or the inhabitants of such district or of any particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants or upon trusts for educational or charitable purposes of which all citizens or all inhabitants of such district or all members of any particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants are exclusively entitled to take advantage, then, on and after the appointed day, such property shall become and be vested in the City Corporation upon the same trusts as those upon which such property was previously vested in such council but the benefit of such trusts shall (as the case may require) extend to the whole of the City or to all the citizens or all the inhabitants of the City or to the said particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants or be open to any citizen or any inhabitant of the City or any member of the said particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants.

(3) Where any real or personal property is immediately before the appointed day vested in any corporate body (other than the council of an added urban district) or in any trustees, committee, or society upon trusts for educational or charitable purposes for the exclusive benefit of one or both of the added urban districts or of the citizens or the inhabitants of one or both of the added urban districts or any particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants or upon trusts for educational or charitable purposes of which all citizens or all inhabitants of one or of both of the added urban districts or any member of any particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants are exclusively entitled to take advantage, then, on and after the appointed day, the benefit of such trusts shall (as the case may require) extend to the whole of the City or to all the citizens or all the inhabitants of the City or to the said particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants or be open to any citizen or any inhabitant of the City or to any member of the said particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants.

(4) Nothing in this section shall apply to any trust for the exclusive benefit of an area which is not co-extensive with the Existing City or with one or both of the added urban districts or for the exclusive benefit of the citizens or the inhabitants of any such area or any particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants or to any trusts of which only the citizens or the inhabitants of any such area or only the members of a particular class of such citizens or such inhabitants are entitled to take advantage.