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Law of Property Act 2000
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206 Protection of purchasers claiming under certain void
appointments
(1) An instrument purporting to exercise a power of appointment over
property that, in default of and subject to any appointment, is held in
trust for a class or number of persons including the appointee is not
void on the ground of fraud on the power as against a purchaser in
good faith.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if, having regard to any advances
made in the appointee's favour and to any hotchpot provision, the
interest appointed exceeds, in amount or value, the interest in
property to which immediately before the execution of the
instrument referred to in subsection (1) the appointee was
presumptively entitled under the trust in default of appointment, the
protection afforded by this section to a purchaser does not extend
to the excess interest.
(3) A person deriving title under a purchaser entitled to the benefit of
this section is entitled to the same benefit as the purchaser would
have been.
(4) This section applies only to dealings effected after the
(5) In this section, purchaser in good faith means a person dealing
with an appointee who is an adult for valuable consideration in
money or money's worth and without notice of the fraud or any
circumstances from which, if reasonable inquiries had been made,
the fraud might have been discovered.