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Several liabilities of co-trustee

Act: Balochistan Trust Act 2020

Section Provisions

ACT IV OF 2020 ACT IV OF 2020 BALOCHISTAN TRUST ACT, 2020 An Act to make provisions relating to the proper management and administration of Trust in Balochistan Province [Gazette of Balochistan Extraordinary, 1st September, 2020] No. PAB/Legis; V(03)/2020, dated 1.9.2020.---The Balochistan Trust Bill, 2020 (Bill No. 03 of 2020), having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 26th August, 2020 and assented to by the Governor, Balochistan on 31st August, 2020 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochistan Provincial Assembly. WHEREAS it is expedient to make provisions relating to the Trusts and to repeal the existing Trust Law; And WHEREAS, to cater for the Monitoring and evaluation purposes of the Trusts; And WHEREAS, it is expedient for the Balochistan Province to enact its own Trust Act for a better Administrative and Legislative control in wake of the 18th Constitutional Amendment; It is hereby enacted as follows: CHAPTER IV OF THE DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF TRUSTEES 40. Several liabilities of co-trustee.---(1) Where co-trustees jointly commit a breach of trust, or where one of them by his neglect enables the other to commit a breach of trust, each is liable to the beneficiary for the whole of the loss occasioned by such breach. (2) Contribution as between co-trustees-But as between the trustees themselves, if one be less guilty than another and has had to refund the loss, the former may compel the latter, or his legal representative to the extent of the assets he has received, to made good such loss; and, if all be equally guilty, any one or more of the trustees who has had to refund the loss may compel the others to contribute. (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorize a trustee who has been guilty of fraud to institute a suit to compel contribution.