§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether it is proposed that, in cases wherein the present parish area is not co-extensive with the old ecclesiastical area of the parish, and wherein, consequently, parish councils are deprived of the privilege granted by the Local Government Act of 1894, the Charity I Commissioners shall alter and revise the scheme relating to the management and distribution of parochial charges.
(Answered by Mr. Trevelyan.) I have been asked by the President of the Local Government Board to answer this Question. In all cases where, owing to difficulties as to areas, a parish council is unable to replace churchwardens and overseers as trustees of a charity, or to exercise the powers of a vestry to appoint trustees or beneficiaries, it is the general practice of the Charity Commissioners to secure the representation of the parish council or the exercise of those powers by the establishment of a scheme. If, however, the charity has an income of £50 or upwards, and the trustees refuse to make an application, the Commissioners have no power to make a scheme, and in that case, though they are unable to provide for the exercise by the parish council of the powers referred to, they proceed to give the desired representation by means of an Order under sub-section 8 of section 14 of The Local Government Act, 1894.