Section 9: Appointment of Official Trustee as trustee by will.

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

When the Official Trustee has by that name or any other sufficient description been appointed trustee under any will, the executor of the will of [the testator] or the administrator of his estate shall, after obtaining probate or letters of administration, notify in the prescribed manner the contents of such will to such Official Trustee; and, if such Official Trustee consents to accept the trust, then upon the execution by such executor or administrator of an instrument in writing transferring the property subject to the Official Trustee, such property shall vest in such Official Trustee, and shall be held by him upon the trusts expressed in the said will:

Provided that the consent of the Official Trustee shall be recited in the said instrument and that such instrument shall be duly executed by the Official Trustee.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Official Trustees Act, 1913
Section	9
Marginal note	Appointment of Official Trustee as trustee by will.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In 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.

substituted, Act 18 of 1919. . Subs. by Act 18 of 1919, s. 2 and first Schedule, for "such testator".

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