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29.—(1) Any trustee or other person (including a government department) holding any property on trust for the purpose of draining, or maintaining or improving the drainage of, any land may, notwithstanding anything in any statutory provision or in any scheme, order of court, deed or other instrument constituting the trust, and without the concurrence of any other person or authority, by agreement, transfer to the Ministry all or any of the property, powers, rights, duties, assets and liabilities of the trust on such terms and conditions as may be agreed with the Ministry, and the Ministry may accept any property so transferred.
(2) The Ministry may apply, for any drainage purpose connected with the land for the benefit of which the trust was constituted, any property accepted under paragraph (1), and any statutory provision or instrument mentioned in that paragraph shall have effect subject to the provisions of this Article.
(3) A transfer made under this Article shall effectively release and discharge the transferor from all duties, claims and liabilities in respect of the trust property thereby transferred to the Ministry, other than a claim or liability in respect of any antecedent breach of trust on the part of the transferor.
(4) Any power conferred by paragraph (1) on a trustee in relation to any trust may be exercised on his behalf by any court having jurisdiction to administer that trust, and any scheme or order made by such court may provide for the appointment, on such terms and subject to such conditions as the court may consider just, of the Ministry as a trustee for the purposes of that trust in any case where the Ministry is willing to act as such.
(5) Paragraphs (2) and (3) shall apply to any property held by the Ministry on trust for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (1) as they apply to any property transferred to the Ministry under that paragraph.
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