Scottish Crown Estate Bill 11 Part 3—Management of Scottish Crown Estate assets 17 Charitable donation (1) A manager may make charitable donations from the manager’s income account. (2) A “charitable donation” is a payment of a sum of money to such person as the manager considers appropriate for a charitable purpose which provides public benefit in Scotland. 5 (3) In subsection (2), “charitable purpose” is to be construed in accordance with section 7(2) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005. 18 Transparency and accountability (1) A manager must, so far as reasonably practicable, exercise its functions in a way which— 10 (a) is transparent and accountable, and (b) is consistent with any other principle of good governance which appears to the manager to constitute best practice. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to Crown Estate Scotland (but see article 4 of the Crown Estate Scotland Order). 15 19 Equalities (1) A manager must exercise its functions in a way which encourages equal opportunities and, in particular, the observance of the equal opportunity requirements. (2) In subsection (1), “equal opportunities” and “equal opportunity requirements” have the same meanings as in Section L2 (equal opportunities) of Part 2 of schedule 5 of the 20 Scotland Act 1998. Planning...