Statute Law Repeals - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

1.108 The scheme confirmed by the Goldsmiths’ Consolidated Charities Scheme
Confirmation Act 1932 147 authorised the trustees of the Goldsmiths’ Consolidated
Charities (under the management of the Goldsmiths’ Company of the City of
London) to make a grant of £50,000 to the University of London out of the capital
endowment of the charities, such grant to be applied towards the cost of building
and equipping a library for the University. 148 The purpose of the gift was to house
the Foxwell collection of economic literature that had been purchased by the
company and given to the University in 1903. 149 The grant authorised by the
scheme was duly made. The scheme thereupon became unnecessary along with
the 1932 Act. The repeal of the 1932 Act is proposed on that basis.
Ford Street Charity
1.109 The Ford Street Charity originated with a 1763 Act 150 whereby John Duke of
Bedford provided funds for the maintenance of almshouses in Ford Street in
Tavistock, Devon. Today the charity, now known as the Ford Street and Maynard
Almshouse Charity, continues to maintain accommodation in Ford Street for poor
persons of good character in the parishes of Tavistock and Gulworthy.
1.110 The scheme confirmed by the Ford Street Charity Scheme Confirmation Act
1932 151 superseded an earlier scheme made by the Charity Commissioners in
1900. The 1932 Act scheme made provision for the administration of the charity
including provision as to the trustees, the application of income and the use of the
almshouses. The 1932 Act scheme has, however, been superseded by a later
scheme sealed by the Charity Commissioners on 22 March 1983. This 1983
scheme (as amended by a scheme sealed on 1 September 1997) re-constituted
the Ford Street charity and merged it with other charities including the Maynard
Almshouse charity. Accordingly the 1932 Act scheme no longer operates and has
become obsolete along with the 1932 Act itself. The repeal of the 1932 Act is
proposed on that basis
147 22 & 23 Geo.5 c.xvii.
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The £50,000 was to be raised by the sale of investments of the charities as directed by the
Charity Commissioners.
149 In 1937 the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature was housed in a purpose-built room
in the Senate House. It remains there to this day.
150 3 Geo.3 c.27 (John Duke of Bedford’s Estate in Tavistock, Devon).
151 22 & 23 Geo.5 c.xviii.
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