New South Wales Consolidated Acts

H.M.S. ENDEAVOUR TRUST FUND ACT 1968 - NOTES

Preamble

WHEREAS during the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four a group of interested persons in Sydney resolved to commemorate certain voyages of discovery of Captain Cook and in particular his discovery in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy of the east coast of Australia; and whereas, pursuant to that resolution, by declaration of trust dated the twelfth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four, a Fund (designated therein as the “H.M.S. Endeavour Trust Fund”) was constituted with power to the Trustees named therein to collect money and to invest, manage, control and expend it for the purpose of building, in England, a replica of the H.M.S. Endeavour, and having it sailed to Australia so as to arrive, if practicable, before April, one thousand nine hundred and seventy, and thereafter to maintain it as or in connection with a maritime museum and to provide for the maintenance and management in perpetuity of the ship and the museum; and whereas in that declaration of trust it was recited that it had been decided to establish a non-profit making company limited by guarantee under the Companies Act 1961, as subsequently amended, to be known as “Captain Cook’s Endeavour Limited”, which Company was duly incorporated; and whereas an appeal for donations was duly conducted and donations were collected throughout the Commonwealth of Australia and elsewhere; and whereas due to increases in costs and the insufficiency of the funds in hand it has become apparent that the original purposes of the trust cannot be achieved and it is considered desirable that donations be proportionately refunded to the donors thereof wherever practicable and that any surplus money in the hands of or under the control of the Trustees and Captain Cook’s Endeavour Limited be made (after payment of necessary expenses) available for expenditure on the development and maintenance of the Captain Cook Museum and Information Centre at Kurnell, New South Wales, under the control of the Trustees of the Captain Cook’s Landing Place:

BE it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Historical notes

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