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Trusts Act 1973
sec.45Power to raise money by sale or mortgage
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### sec.45 Power to raise money by sale or mortgage
Where a trustee is authorised by the instrument (if any) creating the trust or by or under this Act or any other Act or by law to expend, pay or apply capital money subject to the trust for any purpose or in any manner, the trustee has and shall be deemed always to have had power to raise the money required by sale, conversion, calling in or mortgage of all or any part of the trust property for the time being in possession; and where a trustee, in the exercise of the trustee’s powers in that behalf, purchases any property for the trust, the trustee has and shall be deemed always to have had power to make the purchase on terms of deferred payment or on mortgage of that property.