#THE OFFICIAL TRUSTEES ACT, 1913 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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###PART I 

###PRELIMINARY 

SECTIONS 

1. Short title, extent and commencement. 
2. Interpretation clause. 
3. Extent of jurisdiction of High Court. 

###PART II 

###THE OFFICE OF OFFICIAL TRUSTEE 

4. Official Trustees. 
5. Appointment and powers of Deputy Official Trustee. 
6. Official Trustee to be corporation sole, to have perpetual succession and official seal, and to sue and 
  be sued in his corporate name. 

###PART III 

###RIGHTS, POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF OFFICIAL TRUSTEE 

7. General powers and duties of Official Trustee. 
8. Official Trustee may with consent be appointed trustee of settlement by grantor. 
9. Appointment of Official Trustee as trustee by will. 
10. Power of High Court to appoint Official Trustee to be trustee of property. 
11. Power of private trustees to appoint Official Trustee to be trustee of property. 
12. Executor or administrator may pay to Official Trustee legacy, share, etc., of minor or lunatic. 
13. Official Trustee not to be required to give bond or security. 
14. Entry of Official Trustee not to constitute notice of a trust. 
15. Liability of Government. 
16. Notice- of suit not required in certain cases. 

###PART IV 

###FEES 

17. Fees. 
18. Disposal of fees. 

###PART V 

###AUDIT 

19. Auditors to be appointed to examine Official Trustees's accounts, etc., and to report to Government. 
20. Auditor's power to summon witnesses and to call for documents. 
21. Costs of audit, etc., how paid. 
22. Right of beneficiary to inspection and copies of accounts. 

###PART VI 

###MISCELLANEOUS 

23. Transfer to Government of accumulations in the hands of Official Trustee. 
24. Mode of proceeding by claimant to recover money so transferred.
25. Power of High Court to make orders in respect of property vested in Official Trustee. 
26. Who may apply for order under Act. 
27. Order of Court to have effect of a decree. 
28. General powers of administration. 
29. Transfer of trust property by Official Trustee to original trustee or any other trustee. 
30. Rules. 
31. [Repealed.]. 
32. Saving of provisions of Indian Registration Act, 1908. 
32A. Saving. 
32B. Special provision regarding certain Official Trustees affected by States‟ reorganisation. 
33. [Repealed.]. 
THE SCHEDULE.— [Repealed.]. 



#THE OFFICIAL TRUSTEES ACT, 1913 

##ACT NO. 2 OF 1913 [^1]

[27th February, 1913.] 

An Act to consolidate and amend the Law constituting the office of Official Trustee. 

  It is hereby enacted as follows: — 

###PART I 

###PRELIMINARY 

1. **Short title, extent and commencement.** — (1) This Act may be called the Official Trustees 
Act, 1913. 

(2) It extends to the whole of India. 

(3) It  shall  come  into  force  on  such  date as  the  Central  Government,  by  notification  in  the  Official 
Gazette, may direct. 

2. **Interpretation clause.**—In  this  Act,  unless  there  is  anything  repugnant  in  the  subject  or 
context,— 

(1) “Government”  or  “the  Government”  means,  in  relation  to  a  State,  the  State 
Government and, in relation to a Union territory, the Central Government. 

(3) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules under this Act.

3. **Extent of jurisdiction of High Court.**—The  High  Court  shall,  in  respect  of  proceedings 
instituted  by  or  against  the  Official  Trustee  under  this  Act  or  the  Indian  Trusts  Act,  1882 
(2  of  1882),  be  a  competent  Court  throughout  the  territories  in  rela tion  to  which  it  exercises  civil 
appellate jurisdiction: 

  Provided  that  nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  construed  as  affecting  the  jurisdiction  of  any 
district court.

###PART II 

###THE OFFICE OF OFFICIAL TRUSTEE 

4. **Official Trustees.**— (1) The  Government  shall  appoint  an  Official  Trustee  for  each 
State: 

[^1]. This Act has been amended in its application to the former province of Bengal by the Official Trustees (Bengal Amendment)  Act, 
1940  (Ben.  12 of  1940)  and by  the  Official  Trustees  (Bengal  Amendment)  Act,  1941  (Ben. 1  of  1941).  It has  been  extended  to 
Berar by the Berar Laws Act, 1941 (4 of 1941), and to Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and Sch. I. 

 
 
  Provided  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  deemed  to  bar  the  appointment  of  the 
same person as Official Trustee for two or more States.

(2) No person shall be appointed to the office of Official Trustee unless he has been for at least— 

  (a) seven years, an advocate; or 

  (b) seven years, an attorney of a High Court; or 

  (c) ten years, a member of the judicial service of a State; or 

  (d) five years, a Deputy Official Trustee.

5. **Appointment and powers of Deputy Official Trustee.**— (1) The  Government  may  appoint  a 
Deputy or Deputies to assist the Official Trustee; and any Deputy so appointed shall, subject to the control of 
the Government and the general or special orders of the Official Trustee, be competent to discharge any of 
the  duties  and  exercise  any  of  the  powers  of  the  Official  Trustee,  and,  when  discharging  such  duties  or 
exercising such powers shall have the same privileges and be subject to the same- liabilities as the Official 
Trustee. 

(2) No person shall be appointed as a Deputy unless he has been for at least three years— 

  (a) an advocate; or 

  (b) an attorney of a High Court; or 

  (c) a member of the judicial service of a State.

6. **Official Trustee to be corporation sole to have perpetual succession and official seal, and to sue 
and  he sued in  his  corporate  name.**—The Official Trustee shall be a corporation sole by the name of the 
Official Trustee of the State for which he is appointed and, as such Official Trustee, shall have perpetual 
succession and an official seal, and may sue and be sued in his corporate name. 

###PART III 

###RIGHTS, POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF OFFICIAL TRUSTEE 

7. **General powers and duties of Official Trustee.**—(1)  Subject  to,  and  in  accordance  with,  the 
provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the Official Trustee may, if he thinks fit,— 

  (a) act as an ordinary trustee; 

  (b) be appointed trustee by a Court of competent jurisdiction. 

(2) Save as hereinafter expressly provided, the Official Trustee shall have the same powers, duties and 
liabilities and be entitled to the same rights and privileges and be subject to the same control and orders of the 
Court as any other trustee acting in the same capacity. 

(3) The Official Trustee may decline, either absolutely or except on such conditions as he may impose, to 
accept any trust. 

(4) The Official Trustee shall not accept, any trust under any composition or scheme of arrangement for 
the benefit of creditors, nor of any estate known or believed by him to be insolvent. 

(5) The Official Trustee shall not, save as provided by any rules made under this Act, accept any trust for 
a religious purpose or any trust which involves the management or carrying on of any business. 

(6) The  Official  Trustee  shall  not  administer  the  estate  of  a  deceased  person,  unless  he  is  expressly 
appointed sole executor of, and sole trustee under, the will of such person. 

(7) The  Official  Trustee  shall  always  be  sole  trustee,  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  appoint  the  Official 
Trustee to be trustee along with any other person. 

8. **Official Trustee may with consent be appointed trustee of settlement by grantor.**—(1) Any person 
intending to create a trust other than a trust which the Official Trustee is prohibited from accepting under the 
provisions of this Act may by the instrument creating the trust and with the consent of the Official Trustee, 
appoint him by that name or any other sufficient description to be the trustee of the property subject to such 
trust: 

  Provided  that  the  consent  of  the  Official  Trustee  shall  be  recited  in  the  said  instrument  and  that  such 
instrument shall be duly executed by the Official Trustee. 

(2) Upon such appointment the property subject to the trust shall vest in such Official Trustee, and shall 
be held by him upon the trusts declared in such instrument. 

9. **Appointment of Official Trustee as trustee by will.**—When the Official Trustee has by that name or 
any  other  sufficient  description  been  appointed  trustee  under  any  will,  the  executor  of  the  will  of the 
testator or the administrator of his estate shall, after obtaining probate or letters of administration, notify in 
the  prescribed  manner  the  contents  of  such  will  to  such  Official  Trustee;  and,  if  such  Official  Trustee 
consents to accept the trust, then upon the execution by such executor or administrator of an instrument in 
writing  transferring  the  property  subject  to  the  Official  Trustee,  such  property  shall  vest  in  such  Official 
Trustee, and shall be held by him upon the trusts expressed in the said will: 

  Provided  that  the  consent  of  the  Official  Trustee  shall  be  recited  in  the  said  instrument  and  that  such 
instrument shall be duly executed by the Official Trustee. 

10. **Power of High Court to appoint Official Trustee to be trustee of property.**—(1) If any property is 
subject  to  a  trust  other  than  a  trust  which  the  Official  Trustee  is  prohibited  from  accepting  under  the 
provisions of this Act, and there is no trustee within the local limits of the ordinary or extraordinary original 
civil jurisdiction of the High Court willing or capable to act in the trust, the High Court may on application 
make an order for the appointment of the Official Trustee by that name with his consent to be the trustee of 
such property. 

(2) Upon such order such property shall vest in the Official Trustee and shall be held  by him upon the 
same trusts as the same was held previously to such order, and the previous trustee or trustees (if any) shall be 
exempt  from  the  liability  as  trustees  of  such  property  save  in  respect  of  acts  done  before  the  date  of  such 
order. 

(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 
(2 of 1882). 

11. **Power  of  private  trustees  to  appoint  Official  Trustee  to  be  trustee  of  property.**—(1)  If  any 
property is subject to a trust other than a trust which the Official Trustee is prohibited from accepting under 
the provisions of this Act, and all the trustees or the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees and all persons 
beneficially interested in the trust arc desirous that the Official Trustee shall be appointed in the room of such 
trustee or trustees, it shall be lawful for such trustee or trustees, by an instrument in writing to appoint the 
Official Trustee by  that  name  or  any  other sufficient description  with  his  consent  to  be the trustee  of  such 
property: 

  Provided  that  the  consent  of  the  Official  Trustee  shall  be  recited  in  the  said  instrument  and  that  such 
instrument shall be duly executed by him. 

(2) Upon such appointment such property shall vest in the Official Trustee and shall be held by him upon 
the same trusts as the same was held previously to such appointment, and the previous trustee or trustees shall 
be exempt from all liability as trustees of such property save in respect of  acts done before the date of such 
appointment. 

12. **Executor  or  administrator  may  pay  to  Official  Trustee  legacy,  share,  etc.,  of  minor  or 
lunatic.**—(1) If any minor or  lunatic  is  entitled  to  any  gift,  legacy  or  share  of  the  assets  of  a  deceased 
person, it shall be lawful for the person by whom such gift is made, or executor or administrator by whom 
such legacy or share is payable or transferable or any trustee of such gift, legacy or share, to transfer the same 
by an instrument in writing to the Official Trustee by that name or any other sufficient description with his 
consent: 

  Provided  that  the  consent  of  the  Official  Trustee  shall  be  recited  in  the  said  instrument  and  that  such 
instrument shall be duly executed by the Official Trustee. 

(2) Any  money  or  property  transferred  to  the  Official  Trustee  under  this  section  shall  vest  in  him  and 
shall be subject to the same provisions as arc contained in this Act as to other property vested in such Official 
Trustee. 

13. **Official  Trustee  not  to  be  required  to  give  bond  or  security.**—(1)  No Official Trustee  shall  be 
required by any Court to enter into any bond or security on his appointment in any capacity under this Act. 

(2) No Official Trustee shall  be  required  to  verify  otherwise  than  by  his  signature  any  petition 
presented by him under the provisions of this Act, and if the facts stated in any such petition are not within 
his personal knowledge, the petition may be verified and subscribed by any person competent to make the 
verification. 

14. **Entry of Official Trustee not to constitute notice of a trust.**—The entry of the Official Trustee by 
that name in the books of a company shall not constitute notice of a trust; and a company shall not be entitled 
to object to enter the name of the Official Trustee on its register by reason only that the Official Trustee is a 
corporation; and, in dealing with property, the fact that the person dealt with is the Official Trustee shall not 
of itself constitute notice of a trust. 

15. **Liability of Government.**— (1) The Government shall be liable to make good all sums 
required to discharge any liability which the Official Trustee, if he were a private trustee, would be personally 
liable  to  discharge,  except  when  the  liability  is  one  to  which  neither  the  Official  Trustee  nor  any  of  his 
officers  has  in  any  way  contributed  or  which  neither  he  nor  any  of  his  officers  could  by  the  exercise  of 
reasonable  diligence  have  averted,  and  in  either  of  those  cases  the  Official  Trustee  shall  not,  nor  shall  the 
Government, be subject to any liability. 

(2) Nothing  in  sub-section  (1)  shall  be  deemed  to  render  the Government or any  Official  Trustee 
appointed under this Act liable for anything done by or under the authority of any Official Trustee before the 
commencement of this Act. 

16. **Notice of suit not required in certain cases.**— Nothing in section 80 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 
1908 (5 of 1908) shall apply to any suit against the Official Trustee in which no relief is claimed against him 
personally. 

###PART IV 

###FEES 

17. **Fees.**—(1) There shall be charged in respect of the duties of the Official Trustee such fees, whether 
by way of percentage or otherwise, as the Government may prescribe. 

(2) The  fees  under  this  section  may  be  at  different  rates  for  differ ent  properties  or  classes  of 
properties  or  for  different  duties,  and  shall,  so  far  as  may  be,  be  arranged  so  as  to  produce  an 
amount sufficient to  discharge the  salaries and all other  expenses incidental to  the  working  of this 
Act (including  such  sum  as  Government may determine to be required to insure the 
Government against loss under this Act). 

18. **Disposal of fees.**—  (1)  All  expenses  which  might  be  retained  or  paid  out  of  the  trust 
fund, if the Official Trustee were a private trustee, shall be so retained or paid, and any fees  leviable 
under this Act shall be retained or paid in like manner as and in addition to such expenses. 

(2) The Official Trustee shall transfer and pay to such authority and in such manner and at such times 
as the Government may prescribe, all fees received by him under this Act, and the same shall be carried to the 
account and credit of the Government. 

###PART V 

###AUDIT 

19. **Auditors  to  he  appointed  to  examine  Official  Trustee’s  accounts,  etc.,  and  to  report  to 
Government.**—(1) The  accounts  of the  Official Trustee  shall  be audited  at least  once annually  and  at any 
other time if the Government so direct by the prescribed person and in the prescribed manner. 

(2) The auditor shall examine such accounts, and shall forward to Government a statement thereof in the 
prescribed form, together with a report thereon and a certificate signed by him showing— 

  (a) whether the accounts have been audited in the prescribed manner, and whether, so far as can be 
ascertained by such audit, the accounts contain a full and true account of everything which ought to be 
contained therein;

  (b) whether the books, which by any rules made under this Act are directed to be kept by the Official 
Trustee, have been duly and regularly kept, and 

  (c) whether the trust funds and  securities have  been  duly  kept  and invested and  deposited 
in the manner prescribed by this  .Act or any rules made thereunder; 

or (as the case may be) that such accounts are deficient, or that the Official Trustee has failed to comply with 
this Act or the rules made thereunder, in such respects as may be specified in such certificate. 

20. **Auditor’s power to summon witnesses and to call for documents.**—(1) Every auditor shall have 
the powers of a Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908),— 

  (a) to summon any person whose presence he may think necessary to attend him from time to time, 
and 

  (b) to examine any person, on oath to be by him administered, and 

  (c) to issue a commission for the examination on interrogatories or otherwise of any person, and 

  (d) to summon any person to produce any document or thing, the production of which appears to be 
necessary for the purposes of such audit or examination.

(2) Any person who, when summoned, refuses, or without reasonable cause neglects to attend or to 
produce any document or thing or attends and refuses to be sworn, or to be examined shall be deemed 
to  have  committed  an  offence  within  the  meaning  of,  and  punishable  under  section  188  of  the  Indian 
Penal  Code  (45  of  1860),  and  the  auditor  shall  report  every  case  of  such  refusal  or  neglect  to 
Government. 

21. **Costs of audit, etc., how paid.**—The cost of and incidental to every such audit and examination shall 
be  determined  in  accordance  with  rules  made  by  the  Government  and  shall  be  defrayed  in  the  prescribed 
manner. 

22. **Right  of  beneficiary  to  inspection  and  copies  of  accounts.**—Every beneficiary under a trust 
which is being administered by the Official Trustee shall, subject to such conditions and restrictions as 
may  be  prescribed,  be  entitled,  at  all  reasonable  times,  to  inspect  the  accounts  of  such  trust,  and  the 
report and certificate of the auditor and, on payment of the prescribed fee, to be furnished with copies 
thereof .or extracts therefrom, and nothing in the  Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (2 of 1882), shall affect  the 
provisions of this section. 

###PART VI 

###MISCELLANEOUS 

23. **Transfer to Government of accumulations in the hands of Official Trustee.**—When any moneys 
payable to a beneficiary under a trust have been in the hands of any Official Trustee for a period of, twelve 
years  or  upwards  whether  before  or  after  the  commencement  of  this  Act  in  consequence  of  the  Official 
„Trustee having been unable to trace the person entitled to receive the same, such money shall be transferred 
in the prescribed manner to the account and credit of the Government: 

  Provided  that  no  such  moneys  shall  be  so  transferred  if  any  suit  or  proceeding  is  pending  in  respect 
thereof in any Court. 

24. **Mode  of  proceeding  by  claimant  to  recover  money  so  transferred.** —(1) If any claim is 
made  to  any  moneys  so  transferred  and  such  claim  is  established  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
prescribed  authority,  the  Government shall  pay  to  the  claimant  the  amount  in  respect  of 
which the claim is established. 

(2) If  such  claim  is  not  established  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  prescribed  authority,  the  claimant 
may, without prejudice to his right to take any other proceedings for the recovery of such moneys, 
apply by petition to the High Court against the Government, and, after taking such evidence as it 
thinks  fit,  such  Court  shall  make  such  order  on  the  petition  in  regard  to  the  payment  of  such 
moneys as it thinks fit, and such order shall be binding on all parties to the proceedings. 

(3) The Court may further direct by whom all or any part of the costs of such proceedings shall be paid. 

25. **Power  of  High  Court  to make  orders  in respect  of  property  vested in Official  Trustee.**— The 
High Court may make such orders as it thinks fit respecting any trust property vested in the Official Trustee, 
or the income or produce thereof. 
 
26. **Who may apply for order under Act.**—Any order under this Act may be made, on the application 
of any person beneficially interested in any trust property or of any trustee thereof. 

27. **Order of Court to have effect of a decree.**—Any order made by a High Court under this Act shall 
have the same effect as a decree. 

28. **General powers of administration.**—The Official Trustee may, in addition to and not in derogation 
of any other powers of expenditure lawfully exercisable by him, incur expenditure— 

  (a) on such acts as may be necessary for the proper care and management of any property belonging 
to any trust administered by him; and 

  (b) with the sanction of the High Court on such religious, charitable and other objects and on such 
improvements as may be reasonable and proper in the case of such property. 

29. **Transfer of trust property by Official Trustee to original trustee  or  any  other  trustee.**—(1) 
Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent the transfer by the Official Trustee of any property vested in 
him to— 

  (a) the original trustee (if any); or 

  (b) any other lawfully appointed trustee; or 

  (c) any other person if the Court so directs. 

(2) Upon such transfer such property shall vest in such trustee, and shall be held by him upon the same 
trusts as those upon which it was held prior to such transfer, and the Official Trustee shall be exempt from all 
liability as trustee of such property except in respect of acts done before such transfer: 

  Provided  that,  in  the  case  of  any  transfer  under  this  section,  the  Official  Trustee  shall  be  entitled  to 
retain out of the property any fees leviable in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 

30. **Rules.**—(1) The Government shall make rules for carrying into effect the objects  of this Act 
and for regulating the proceedings of the Official Trustee in the discharge of his duties. 

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide 
for— 

  (a) the accounts to be kept by the Official Trustee and the audit and inspection thereof; 

  (b) the safe custody, and deposit of the funds and securities which come into the hands of the Official 
Trustee; 

  (c) the  remittance  of  sums  of  money  in  the  hands  of  the  Official  Trustee  in  cases  in  which  such 
remittances are required; 

  (d) the statements, schedules and other documents to be submitted by the Official Trustee 
to Government or to any other authority and the publication of such statements, schedules or 
other documents; 

  (e) the realization of the cost of preparing any such statements, schedules or other documents ; 

  (f) subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  the  fees  to  be  paid  thereunder  and  the  collection  and 
accounting for any fees so fixed; 

  (g) the manner in which and the person by whom the costs of and incidental to any audit under the 
provisions of this Act are to be determined and defrayed; 

  (h) the manner in which summonses issued under the provisions of section 20 are to be served and 
the payment of the expenses of any persons summoned or examined under the provisions of this Act and 
of any expenditure incidental to such examination; 

  (i) the acceptance by the Official Trustee of trusts for religious purposes and trusts which involve the 
management or carrying on of business; and 

  (j) any matter in this Act directed to be prescribed. 

(3) Rules made under the provisions of this section shall be  published in the Official Gazette, and shall 
thereupon have effect as if enacted in this Act. 

(3A) Every rule made by the State Government under this section shall be laid, as soon as it is made, 
before the State Legislature.

(4) Every rule made by the Central Government under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after 
it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may 
be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session 
immediately  following  the  session  or  the  successive  sessions  aforesaid],  both  Houses  agree  in 
making  any  modification  in  the  rule  or  both  Houses  agree  that  the  rule  should  not  be  made,  the 
rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; 
so  however  that  any  such  modification  or  annulment  shall  be  without  prejudice  to  the  validity  of 
anything previously done under that rule.

31. *[Division. of Presidency into Provinces.] Rep. by the Adaptation of Laws (Order)*, 1937. 

32. **Saving  of  provisions  of  Indian  Registration  Act,  1908.**—Nothing contained in this  Act 
shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908). 

32A. **Saving.**— (1) The amendments of this Act which come into force on the 26th day of 
January, 1950, shall not affect any legal proceedings pending in any  Court  on  that  date  or  be 
construed as automatically transferring any property from any Official Trustee to any other Official 
Trustee: but nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing a transfer of any such property 
in accordance with any of the other provisions of this Act.

(2) The amendments of this Act, which come into force on the 26th day of January, 1950, shall 
not  affect  any  legal  proceeding  arising  out  of  the  application  of  this  Act  to  any  person  in  a  Part  B 
State and pending in any Court on the said date or the administration of any property or estate of any 
such person which was immediately before that date vested in an Official Trustee under this Act, and 
the  provisions  of  this  Act  shall,  notwithstanding  the  said  amendments,  continue  to  apply  with 
necessary  modifications,  in  relation  to  such  proceedings  or  such  property  or  estate,  as  the  case  may 
be.

32B. **Special   provi sion  regardi ng  cert ai n  Of f ic ial   Trust ees  af f ect ed  by  St ates’ 
reorganisation.**—The  amendments  of  this  Act  which  come  into  force  on  the  1st  November,  1956, 
shall  not  affect  any  legal  proceedings  pending  in  any  Court  on  that  date  and  where,  on  acc ount  of 
the  reorganisation  of  States  under  the  States  Reorganisation  Act,  1956  (37  of  1956),  or  the  Bihar 
and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act, 1956 (40 of 1956), the whole or any part of a State 
is transferred to any other State, such transfer of  the territory of the State shall not be construed as 
automatically transferring any property from any Official Trustee to any other Official Trustee; but 
if,  by  reason  of  such  transfer  of  territory,  it  appears  to  the  Central  Government  that  the  whole  or 
any part of the property vested in an Official Trustee, should be vested in another Official Trustee, 
that  Government  may  direct  that  the  property  will  be  so  vested  and  thereupon  it  shall  vest  in  that 
other Official Trustee and his successors as fully and e ffectually for the purposes of this Act, as if 
it had been originally vested in him under this Act.

33. *[Repeals.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1927 (12 of 1927), s. 2 and Schedule.*

*THE SCHEDULE.—[Enactments repealed.] Rep. by s. 2 and Schedule*, ibid.