Law of Property Act 1922

162 Powers of personal representatives in regard to administration.

(1) The personal representative may limit or demise land for a term of years absolute, with or without impeachment for waste, to trustees on usual trusts for raising or securing any principal sum and the interest thereon for which the real estate, or any part thereof, is liable, and may limit or grant a rentcharge for giving effect to any annual or periodical sum for which the land or the income thereof or any part thereof is liable.

(2) Where probate is granted to one or some of two or more persons named as executors, whether or not power is reserved to the others or other to prove, then all the powers which are by law conferred on the personal representatives or representative may be exercised by the proving executors or executor for the time being and shall be as effectual as if all the persons named as executors had concurred therein.