Mining Institute Of Scotland Trust

Constitutional objectives

The trustees shall pay, apply or make over the whole free annual income of the Benevolent Fund, or such part thereof as they shall in their own absolute discretion think fit, to for or among or for the benefit of anyone or more of (1) former members of the Mining Institute of Scotland or (2) members or former members of the Institution of Mining Engineers for the time being resident in Scotland or who have worked in connection with mining matters for at least five consecutive years in Scotland or (3) any spouse, widow, widower, parent, child or former dependant of any such person of either category as are by reason of poverty, indigence , illness, disability or age in need of relief or support, but that for the purpose of such relief or support and not otherwise. in the event that the Trustees having given full and proper consideration to making payment to potential beneficiaries meeting the foregoing criteria in this paragraph but there remains all or part of the whole free annual income of the Benevolent Fund then the Trustees shall in their own absolute discretion if they think fit, make payment of all or any part of such remaining free annual income of the Benevolent Fund to The Members Benevolent Trust of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (English registered charity no. 20718) for the Trustees of that Trust to make payment in their discretion as they consider to be appropriate to beneficiaries albeit such beneficiaries are resident in England and Wales