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Trustee Act 1925
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9 Vesting on appointment and retirement
(1) Where a new trustee is appointed, the execution and registration of
the deed of appointment shall without any conveyance, except as
otherwise provided in this section, vest in the persons who become
and are the trustees for performing the trust, as joint tenants and for
the purposes of the trust, the trust property for which the new trustee
is appointed.
(2) Where a trustee retires, the execution and registration of the deed or
deeds of consent and retirement shall without any conveyance, except
as otherwise provided in this section, vest in the continuing trustees
alone as joint tenants and for the purposes of the trust, all the trust
property which is jointly vested in the continuing trustees and the
retiring trustee.
(3) Land under the Land Titles Act 1925 does not vest until—
(a) the appropriate transfer is registered; or
(b) an entry of the vesting is made in the register kept under that
Act.
(4) For subsection (3), an entry of the vesting of land has the same effect
as the registration of a transfer of the land.
(5) The following property does not vest until the appropriate transfer is
registered:
(a) a mortgage for securing money subject to the trust (other than
land under the Land Titles Act 1925 or land conveyed on trust
for securing debentures or debenture stock);
(b) other property for which a conveyance is required to be
registered under the law of the place where the property is
located.
(6) Property that is only transferable—
(a) in books kept by a corporation, company or other body; or
(b) in the manner directed by or under a law in force in the place
where the property is located;
does not, under this section, vest until it is duly transferred.
(7) In the case of land held under a lease which contains any covenant
condition or agreement against assignment or disposing of the land
without license or consent, the land shall not vest until it is duly
transferred, unless—
(a) before the execution of the deed of appointment, or the deed or
deeds of consent and retirement, as the case may be, the requisite
license or consent to the assignment or disposition has been
obtained; or
(b) by virtue of any statute or rule of law the vesting would not
operate as a breach of covenant or give rise to a forfeiture.
(8) In subsection (7):
lease includes an underlease and an agreement for a lease or
underlease.
(9) If any property does not vest under this section until transfer or
registration, the execution and registration of the deed of
appointment, or of the deed or deeds of consent and retirement, as the
case may be, shall nevertheless vest the right to call for a transfer of
the property, and to sue for or recover the property.
(10) This section extends to an appointment by deed, or a retirement by
deed, under the provisions of the trust instrument.
(11) In this section:
joint tenant includes joint owner.