Law of Property Act 1922

118 Protection to trustees by means of advertisements.

(1) With a view to the conveyance to or distribution among the persons entitled to any real or personal property, the trustees of a settlement or of a disposition on trust for sale, may give notice by advertisements in the Gazette, and in a daily London newspaper and (but only in the case of land not situated in the county of London) in a daily or weekly newspaper circulating in the district in which the land is situated, and such other like notices (including notices elsewhere than in England) as would, in any special case, have been requisite in order to comply with section twenty-nine of the Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, in the case of an intended distribution of assets by a personal representative, of their intention to make such conveyance or distribution as aforesaid, and requiring any person interested to send particulars of his claim in respect of the property or any part thereof, to which the notice relates, to the trustees, within the time (not being less than two months) fixed in the notice or, where more than one notice is given, in the last of the notices.

(2) At the expiration of the time fixed by the notice the trustees may convey or distribute the property or any part thereof, to which the notice related, to or among the persons entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims (formal or otherwise) of which the trustees then had notice and (if the requisite notice has been given) shall not, as respects the property so conveyed or distributed, be liable to any person of whose claim the trustees shall not have had notice at the time of conveyance or distribution; but nothing in this section shall prejudice the right of any person to follow the property, or any property representing the same, into the hands of any person (other than a purchaser) who may have received the same.