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Trustee Act 1893
12Retirement of trustees
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12 Retirement of trustees
(1) Where there are more than 2 trustees, if one of them by deed
declares that he is desirous of being discharged from the trust, and
if his co-trustees and such other person (if any) as is empowered to
appoint trustees, by deed consent to the discharge of the trustee,
and to the vesting in the co-trustees alone of the trust property, then
the trustee desirous of being discharged shall be deemed to have
retired from the trust, and shall, by the deed, be discharged
therefrom under this Act, without any new trustee being appointed
in his place.
(2) Any assurance or thing requisite for vesting the trust property in the
continuing trustees alone shall be executed or done.
have effect subject to the terms of that instrument and to any
(4) This section applies to trusts created either before or after the