Act Number: 2

Act Name: The Indian Trust Act, 1882

Year: 1882

Enactment Date: 1882-01-13

Long Title: An Act to define and amend the law relating to Private Trusts and Trustees.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 53: Trustee may not buy beneficiary’s interest without permission.
    No trustee, and no person who has recently ceased to be a trustee, may, without the permission of a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction, buy or become mortgagee or lessee of the trust-property or any part thereof; and such permission shall not be given unless the proposed purchase, mortgage or lease is manifestly for the advantage of the beneficiary.
     Trustee for purchase.-- And no trustee whose duty it is to buy or to obtain a mortgage or lease of particular property for the beneficiary may buy it, or any part the reof, or obtain a mortgage or lease of it, or any part thereof, for himself.
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