(1) In this section -
"the Act" means the Educational Endowments (Ireland) Act, 1885;
"scheme" means a scheme framed and approved under the Act;
"the enabling clause" means, in relation to a scheme, the clause (which empowers the Board to alter the scheme) inserted in the scheme in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Act;
references to a scheme shall, where the scheme has been altered under the enabling clause, be construed as references to the scheme as so altered.
(2) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that, subject to subsection (3), -
(a) the power of altering a scheme in any matter or manner conferred on the Board by the enabling clause includes power to make in the scheme all such alterations as may be requested by the person or persons upon whose application the Board are, under the enabling clause, empowered to make alterations in that matter or manner;
(b) the alterations in the scheme may include -
(i) provision for any of the matters mentione
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