All husbands, guardians, tutors, committees, curators, feoffees, trustees, judicial factors, executors, and administrators shall respectively have the same rights and powers of making applications and signifying dissents, and taking other proceedings under this Act, as their respective wives, infants, minors, lunatics, idiots, and furious and fatuous persons would have had if free from disability, or as such feoffees, trustees, judicial factors, executors, or administrators respectively would have had if the estates, charges, or interests of which they shall be such feoffees, trustees, or judicial factors, or which shall be vested in them as such executors or administrators, had been vested in them in their own right; but no guardian, tutor, committee, curator, feoffee, trustee, judicial factor, executor, or administrator shall be in anywise compelled or obliged to signify a dissent from any application under this Act, or be in anywise responsible for the consequences of such application, or of any charge made in pursuance thereof.
Extent Information
E1This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 24 excluded by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), s. 113, Sch. 3
[F1Any person entitled to act as the legal representative of a person under legal disability by reason of non-age or mental incapacity shall be entitled to act on behalf of that person for the purposes of this Act; and any trustee, judicial factor, executor or administrator shall, subject to any other enactment, have the same rights and powers for the purposes of this Act as if the property vested in or administered by him had been vested in him in his own right; but no such legal representative], trustee, judicial factor, executor, or administrator shall be in anywise compelled or obliged to signify a dissent from any application under this Act, or be in anywise responsible for the consequences of such application, or of any charge made in pursuance thereof.
Extent Information
E2This version of this provision extends to Scotland only; a separate version has been created for England and Wales only
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 24 substituted (S.) (1.11.1996) by 1995 c. 36, s. 105(4), Sch. 4 para.3 (with s. 103(1)); S.I. 1996/2203, art. 3, Sch.1
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2S. 24 excluded by Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20, SIF 85), s. 113, Sch. 3