Powers of Trust

   14. Powers of Trust---In the exercise of its functions under this Act
 the Trust shall have the following powers:
   (a) To investigate, identify, classify, and record historic places and
         historic areas:
   (b) To acquire, restore, and manage any historic place or to assist
         any other person or organisation to acquire, restore, and manage
         any historic place:
   (c) To take such measures as it considers necessary to ensure that
         adequate finance is available to carry out its functions:
   (d) To erect suitable signs and notices on historic places and
         historic areas, subject, in the case of any historic place and
         historic area not owned by or under the control of the Trust, to
         the consent of the owner first being obtained:
   (e) To enter into agreements with local authorities, corporations,
         societies, individuals, or other controlling bodies for the
         management, maintenance, and preservation of any historic place
         or historic area:
   (f) To acquire by purchase, lease, exchange, bailment, gift, or
         otherwise any interest in real or personal property:
   (g) To dispose of any of its property as it thinks fit by sale, lease,
         exchange, or bailment:
   (h) To cause such steps to be taken as in the opinion of the Trust are
         necessary to make historic places accessible to the public,
         charge fees for admission, or to lease or let, or to use for any
         suitable purpose, any lands or buildings vested in the Trust or
         under its control:
   (i) To promote or supervise any investigations of historic places or
         historic areas:
   (j) To appoint committees, whether composed of members of the Board or
         not:
   (k) To make grants for the undertaking of studies or investigations
         approved by the Trust:
   (l) To publish books, pamphlets, reports, recommendations, and other
         information relating to any function of the Trust:
   (m) To make grants or advances of money on such terms and conditions
         as it sees fit (including advances free of interest) to further
         the functions of the Trust:
   (n) To expend any money and generally to undertake any other powers
         and actions that are necessary for the exercise of or ancillary
         to any of its functions.
     Cf. 1954, No. 14, s. 9; 1975, No. 40, s. 3