REG/2013/02
Register of Holding Entities
- Kind:
- Report
- Date:
- May 2013
- Origin:
- Compiled by the treasurer with the Institute's solicitors. Revised 2021.
- Access:
- Open. The register is kept by the treasurer and is not a filing.
The dull legal truth: six separate local bodies, no central ownership, and the consequence that the Institute cannot compel a house.
Catalogue card · REG/2013/02 · silver gelatin, contact print
REGISTER OF HOLDING ENTITIES REG/2013/02
There is no single legal person called the Continuance Institute which owns
anything. Property is held by six local bodies, each governed by its own
members under its own law:
Continuance North Maine, USA.
Holds North, River, Orchard, Briar.
Continuance Atlantic Nova Scotia, Canada.
Holds Shore, Cedar.
The Fell Body England and Wales.
Holds Fell. Leases Lantern.
Kraško društvo Continuance Slovenia.
Holds Karst.
Continuance Aotearoa New Zealand.
Holds South.
The Central Office Maine. Unincorporated. Holds nothing;
employs the salaried posts and is funded
by a levy of 6% on house income.
CONSEQUENCE, stated because it is regularly misunderstood: the stewardship
cannot direct a house to sell, spend, close, or transfer anything. It can
record a finding, publish it, and withhold the levy's services. That is the
whole of its power over property and it has twice been insufficient.
CONSEQUENCE, second: a house which left the Institute would keep its
building. This has been raised at every reconciliation since 1988 and no
change has been made, because the alternative is central ownership and the
stewardship has judged central ownership the greater risk.
Lantern House is leased and not owned. The lease expires in 2031 and the
landlord has not said whether it will be renewed.
Catalogued at the North House · reproduction permitted for study · redactions are not itemised
Elsewhere in the catalogue
Related records
- Statement of Loss and Reinstatement, autumn 1998 (LED/1998/04)
The earlier accounts in which a residential designation is left unreconciled.
- Revisions of the public catalogue
The register was revised in 2021; the revisions record what changed and when.