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Section 64

Power to make beneficiary indemnify for breach of trust

of Trustee Act 1949

ActIn forceProvision 64 of 69
Section 64
(1)

Where a trustee commits a breach of trust at the instigation or request or with the consent in writing of a beneficiary, the Court may, if it thinks fit, and notwithstanding that the beneficiary may be a married woman restrained from anticipation, make such order as to the Court seems just, for impounding all or any part of the interest of the beneficiary in the trust estate by way of indemnity to the trustee or persons claiming through him.

(2)

This section applies to breaches of trust committed as well as before as after the commencement of this Act.

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