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Power to advise charity trustees as to administration of trusts.
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21.—(1) Where the trustees of a charity apply to the Board for their opinion or advice respecting the charity or the administration thereof or the property thereof or the application of the property or any question or dispute relating thereto or where the executors of a will containing a charitable devise or bequest apply to the Board for their opinion or advice respecting the devise or bequest or the administration thereof or the application thereof or any question or dispute relating thereto, the Board shall consider the application and may, if they think fit, give such opinion or advice as they think expedient.
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(2) The opinion or advice of the Board shall be given under the seal of the Board.
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(3) Where the Board give their opinion or advice in relation to any matter, a trustee, executor or any other person who during any period (not being a period after the making of an order in relation to the matter by a Court of competent jurisdiction) acts on or in accordance with the opinion or advice shall, in respect of his so acting during that period, be deemed, so far as respects his own responsibility, to have acted in accordance with his trust.
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(4) No order made subsequently by a Court shall have any such retrospective effect as to interfere with or impair the indemnity given by this section to a trustee, executor or other person who has acted on or in accordance with such opinion or advice.
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(5) This section shall not indemnify a trustee or other person for any act done in accordance with an opinion or advice of the Board, if he has been guilty of fraud, wilful concealment or misrepresentation in obtaining the opinion or advice.
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