(1) The trustees shall
be entitled at all times after the commencement of this Act to exercise all
the powers relating to the lands, tenements, and hereditaments (including
chattels real), rights, easements, and appurtenances, and personal property
and choses in action hereby vested in the body corporate, or which may
hereafter be acquired by the body corporate, or which may become vested in the
body corporate under this Act or otherwise, which were immediately before the
commencement of this Act exercisable by the General of The Salvation Army and
the Director of the Social Work of The Salvation Army for the time being
respectively under the said recited Deed of Constitution and Deed Poll of 26
July 1904, and under the said recited Deed Poll of 1 June 1920, according as
the trustees hold the same upon the trusts of such Deed of Constitution and
first-mentioned Deed Poll, or of such second-mentioned Deed Poll (as the case
may be), and may exercise all or any of such powers and of the powers by this
Act conferred upon them, notwithstanding there is for the time being any
vacancy in the office of General of The Salvation Army, or the office of
Director of the Social Work of The Salvation Army.
(2) Such trusts shall
not be enlarged, modified, varied, or altered save as provided in the next
succeeding section.
[Section 8 amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 51.]