Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924

Application to Settled Land Act Trustees.

12 (1) All the powers and provisions contained in the Act of 1893, with reference to the appointment of new trustees, and the discharge and retirement of trustees, shall apply to and include trustees for the purposes of the Settled Land Acts, and for the purpose of the management of land during a minority, whether such trustees are appointed by the court or by the settlement, or under provisions contained in any instrument.

(2) Where, either before or after the commencement of the principal Act, trustees of a settlement have been appointed by the court for the purposes of the Settled Land Acts, then, after the commencement of that Act—

(a) the person or persons nominated for the purpose of appointing new trustees by the instrument, if any, creating the settlement though no trustees for the purposes of the Settled Land Acts were thereby appointed; or

(b) if there is no such person, or no such person able and willing to act, the surviving or continuing trustees or trustee for the time being for the purposes of the Settled Land Acts or the personal representatives of the last surviving or continuing trustee for those purposes ;

shall have the statutory powers to appoint new or additional trustees of the settlement for the purposes of the Settled Land Acts.

(3) Appointments of new trustees for the purposes of the Settled Land Acts made or expressed to be made before the commencement of the principal Act by the trustees or trustee or personal representatives referred to in sub-paragraph (2) (6) of this paragraph or by the persons referred to in sub-paragraph (2) (a) of this paragraph are, without prejudice to any order of the court made before such commencement, hereby confirmed.

(4) The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in substitution for section forty-seven of the Act of 1893.