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Trustee Act 1925
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21 Arrangement with company
(1) Where any security of a company is held by a trustee, and the trustee
can lawfully hold or retain the same, the trustee may, in like manner
as if he or she were beneficially entitled to the security, concur in any
scheme or arrangement—
(a) for the reconstruction of the company; or
(b) for the amalgamation of the company with any other company;
or
(c) for the sale of all or any part of the property and undertaking of
the company to any other company; or
(d) for the release, modification or variation of any rights, privileges
or liabilities attached to the security.
(2) Instead of or exchange for the security the trustee may accept any
security of any denomination or description of the reconstructed or
new or purchasing company.
(3) The trustee shall not be responsible for any loss occasioned by
anything done honestly, and may hold and retain any security so
accepted in like manner as he or she could have done if the same had
been an investment authorised by the trust instrument or by law.
(4) The powers conferred by this section shall be exercisable subject to
the consent of any person whose consent to a change of investment is
required by the trust instrument or by law.
(5) This section applies to a trust except so far as the contrary intention