Section 75
Power to appoint trustees of minor’s property
of Probate and Administration Act 1959
Where a minor is absolutely entitled under the will or on the intestacy of a person dying before or after the commencement of this Act (in this subsection called “the deceased”) to a devise or legacy, or to the residue of the estate of the deceased, or any share therein, and the devise, legacy, residue or share is not under the will, if any, of the deceased, devised or bequeathed to trustees for the minor, the personal representatives of the deceased may appoint a trust corporation or two or more individuals not exceeding four (whether or not including the personal representatives or one or more of the personal representatives), to be the trustee of the devise, legacy, residue or share for the minor, and may, subject to section 60, execute or do any assurance or thing requisite for vesting the devise, legacy, residue or share in the trustee so appointed;
and on such an appointment the personal representatives, as such, shall be discharged from all further liability in respect of the devise, legacy, residue, or share, and the same may be retained in its existing condition or state of investment, or may be converted
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into money, and the money may be invested in any authorized investment.
(2)
Where a personal representative has before the commencement of this Act retained or sold any such devise, legacy, residue or share, and invested the same or the proceeds thereof in any investments in which he was authorized to invest money subject to the trust, then, subject to any order of the Court made before the commencement, he shall not be deemed to have incurred any liability on that account, or by reason of not having paid or transferred the money or property into Court.
Obligations of personal representative as to giving possession of land and powers of the Court