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### 31 Power of trustee companies to act for two or more trustees
> *\[Section 31 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 \]**\[Section 31 Renumbered by 25 Geo. V No. 78 \]*A company authorized by law to act as a trustee shall, where appointed trustee, be deemed to constitute for all purposes a trusteeship of more than one trustee, and may be appointed to act, or to continue to act as trustee, where two or more trustees are, by Act or other instrument, required to execute the trust, unless the instrument creating the trust expressly prohibits such appointment or action; and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary hereinbefore contained, in any such case any retiring trustee may be discharged although there will not be two or more trustees left to perform the trust.