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TRUSTEE ACT 1936 - SECT 31

31—Shares with contingent liability

        (1)         Where trust property includes shares not fully paid up in any company in respect of which there is a contingent liability to contribute, then so soon as the trustee has procured registration of those shares in the name of some other person he may transfer and distribute the trust property without retaining any portion thereof for payment of calls made on those shares after the date of the registration whether made by the company or its directors or by its liquidator in a winding up or by a receiver or manager on behalf of the holders of any debenture or otherwise, and the trustee shall not in such case be personally liable to pay any call after the registration except to the extent of trust property which, at the time when the call is made remains, or should in the due course of administration have remained, in his hands and is, or should have been, available for paying such calls.

        (2)         This section shall not affect the right to follow assets into the hands of any person or persons to or amongst whom the assets may have been transferred or distributed for the purposes of recovering payment of any such call.

        (3)         This section applies to trusts created either before or after the commencement of the Trustee Act Amendment Act 1941 .



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