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Scout Groups must be properly accommodated and equipped in order to carry out their training programmes.

The administrators of the Group must concern themselves with all legal requirements relevant to the ownership of all property and equipment or to the hiring of premises.

All freehold and leasehold land, with or without buildings, and premises used under a formal Licence Agreement, must be held by trustees appointed as specified.

Investments may also be held in this way.

Trustees must be appointed under a Declaration of Trust.

They may be two or more people nominated by the Group Executive Committee, or they may be a trust corporation.

The Scout Association Trust Corporation may be appointed for this purpose.

The Scout Association Trust Corporation will hold property upon standard trusts which have been approved by the Association's Legal Advisers.

A Model Declaration of Trust suitable for local Trustees to declare similar Trusts can be provided on request, to the Solicitor acting for the Group, District or County, by Headquarters who will also advise if exceptional circumstances appear to make it necessary or desirable that property be held on other trusts.