14B—Appointment of additional trustees
(1) The person or
persons nominated for the purpose of appointing new trustees by the instrument
(if any) creating the trust, or if there is no such person, or no such person
able and willing to act, then the trustees for the time being or the
representatives of the last surviving or continuing trustee, may by writing
appoint one or more additional trustees.
(2) Every additional
trustee so appointed, as well before as after all the trust property becomes
by law or by assurance or otherwise vested in him, shall have the same powers
authorities and discretions, and may in all respects act as if he had been
originally appointed a trustee by the instrument (if any) creating the trust.
(3) On the appointment
of an additional trustee any assurance or thing requisite for the vesting of
the trust property or any part thereof jointly in the trustees shall be
executed or done.
(4) This section shall
apply unless the instrument (if any) creating the trust expressly provides
that it shall not apply, or expressly forbids the appointment of additional
trustees.
(5) This section
applies to trusts created either before or after the commencement of the
Trustee Act Amendment Act 1942 .