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Trustee Act 1893
50Power to make beneficiary indemnify for breach of trust
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50 Power to make beneficiary indemnify for breach of trust
(1) Where a trustee commits a breach of trust at the instigation or
request or with the consent in writing of a beneficiary, the Supreme
Court may, if it thinks fit, and notwithstanding that the beneficiary
may be a married woman entitled for her separate use and
restrained from anticipation, make such order as to the Court
seems just for impounding all or any part of the interest of the
beneficiary in the trust estate, by way of indemnity to the trustee or
any person claiming through him.
(2) This section shall apply to breaches of trust committed as well
before as after the commencement of this Act, but shall not apply
so as to prejudice any question in an action or other proceeding
which is pending at the commencement of this Act.
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50AA Cy-pres modification in certain cases
(1) Subject to this section, where:
(a) the Supreme Court has, under section 21A, declared a
disposition of property to be invalid; or
(b) it appears to the Court that a disposition, whether made before
or after the commencement of this section, would be invalid
solely on the ground that it conflicts with the rule against
perpetuities,
and the general intentions originally governing the disposition can
be ascertained, the Court shall reform the disposition so as to give
effect as far as possible to those general intentions within the limits
permitted under the rule against perpetuities as affected by this
section.
(2) A disposition of property made before the commencement of this
section shall not be reformed under subsection (1):
(a) where the disposition has been declared invalid before that
commencement by an order or judgment made or given in
legal proceedings;
(b) where any property comprised in the disposition has, before
that commencement, been paid or transferred to, or applied
for the benefit of, or set apart for, a person entitled by reason
of the invalidity of the disposition; or
(c) so as to prejudice a person who has, before that
commencement, reasonably altered his or her position in
reliance on the invalidity of the disposition where, in the
opinion of the Supreme Court, having regard to all possible
implications in respect of other persons, it is inequitable to
reform the disposition wholly or in part.
(3) In hearing an application to reform a disposition under this section,
the Supreme Court:
(a) may admit extrinsic evidence of the general intentions
originally governing the disposition and shall apply liberal rules
of construction for the purpose of ascertaining them; and
(b) shall have no regard to the rights of a person other than:
(i) a person born or en ventre sa mere when the disposition
was made; and
(ii) a person entitled on the death of a such person,
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and in reforming the disposition the Court may specify the
perpetuity period in accordance with section 187 of the Law of
Property Act 2000.
(4) An application for reformation under this section may be made by:
(a) a trustee of property comprised in the disposition;
(b) the settlor or the settlor's personal representative; or
(c) a person having an interest, whether vested or contingent,
under the disposition or the personal representative of the
person to whom the interest passes.
(5) Where a trustee of property comprised in a disposition becomes
aware that the disposition requires to be reformed under
subsection (1), the trustee has a duty to make an application under
this section.
(6) A disposition that has been reformed under this section:
(a) is valid notwithstanding that it would have been invalid under a
rule of law or construction if it had been effected in any other
way; and
(b) shall be construed as if it had not been effected under this
section.