Privy Council Office
2 Carlton Gardens, London SW1Y 5AA. 28 June 2006
PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACT 1868
The Governing Body of Eton College have made amendments to its Statute in the terms appended hereto, and the same is hereby published in The London Gazette as required by the above-named Act. Any person or body corporate authorised by the said Act, may, within 2 months after publication hereof, petition Her Majesty in Council to withhold Her approval from the whole or any part of the said statute. Statute to amend statute XXII of Eton College which amendment having been made at a Meeting held at Eton College on the 23rd day of June 2006 of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College (the said Provost and Fellows being the new governing body of the said college for the purposes of the Public Schools Act 1868 and the Acts amending the same), and passed at such Meeting by a majority of votes of the Members present and voting is now submitted for the approval of Her Majesty in Council. WE, the Provost and Fellows of Eton College being the new Governing Body of the said College (hereinafter called “the College”) for the purposes of the Public Schools Act 1868 and the Acts amending the same in pursuance of the power given to us by the Eleventh Section of the Public Schools Act 1868 (and of all other powers us hereunto enabling) to alter the Statutes made under that Act and the Acts amending the same in relation to the College do hereby amend Statute XXII of the existing Statutes of the College to read as follows: XXII Subject as hereinafter provided in this Statute any endowments or other moneys of or held upon trust for the College or for purposes connected with the College may be invested by the Provost and Fellows upon or in such securities, shares, stocks, funds or other investments (including land) in any part of the world and whether involving liability or not as the Provost and Fellows shall in their absolute discretion think fit so that the Provost and Fellows shall be empowered to invest and transpose the investments of such endowments or moneys in the same unrestricted manner as if they were the beneficial owners thereof. Provided that: (a) such power shall not at any time be exercised in respect of the funds of any Trust of which the Provost and Fellows are not at the time when it is exercised the only Trustees except with the consent of the other Trustee or Trustees thereof; (b) such power shall not extend to the funds of a specific Trust created after the 5th day of May 1926 if the Instrument creating the Trust contains special provisions concerning the type of investment which may be made thereunder; (c) nothing in this Statute shall authorise any sale or exchange to which the consent of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is required by section 2(2) of the Universities and College Estates Act 1925, to be made without such consent; and (d) any investment made under such power of capital moneys paid to the said Minister under the said Act or of funds representing such capital moneys shall require the same consent of the said Minister as is required for an investment made in exercise of the powers conferred by that Act. In witness whereof we the said Provost and Fellows of Eton College have hereunto caused our Common Seal to be hereunto affixed the 23rd day of June Two thousand and six. The Common Seal of Eton College was hereunto affixed in the presence of: Sir Eric Anderson, Provost Mr James Cook, Vice-Provost Mr Andrew Wynn, Bursar
