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Section 10: Power of High Court to appoint Official Trustee to be trustee of property.

The Official Trustees Act, 1913Central Act · Act 2 of 1913

(1) If any property is subject to a trust other than a trust which the Official Trustee is prohibited from accepting under the provisions of this Act, and there is no trustee within the local limits of the ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court willing or capable to act in the trust, the High Court may on application make an order for the appointment of the Official Trustee by that name with his consent to be the trustee of such property.

(2) Upon such order such property shall vest in the Official Trustee and shall be held by him upon the same trusts as the same was held previously to such order, and the previous trustee or trustees (if any) shall be exempt from the liability as trustees of such property save in respect of acts done before the date of such order.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions of * * * the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (2 of 1882).

Where this provision sits

ActThe Official Trustees Act, 1913
Section10
Marginal notePower of High Court to appoint Official Trustee to be trustee of property.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • omitted, Act 48 of 1964. . The words and figures "the Trustees' and Mortgagees' Powers Act, 1866, or" omitted by Act 48 of 1964, s. 7.

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