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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 VII OF RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF BENEFICIARY 76. Wrongful purchase by trustee.---(1) Where a trustee has wrongfully bought trust-property, the beneficiary has a right to have the property declared subject to the trust or retransferred by the trustee, if it remains in his hands unsold, or, if it has been bought from him by any person with notice of the trust, by such person. But in such case the beneficiary must repay the purchase-money paid by the trustee, with interest, and such other expenses (if any) as he has properly incurred in the preservation of the property; and the trustee or purchaser must (a) account for the net profits of the property, (b) be charged with an occupation-rent, if he has been in actual possession of the property, and (c) allow the beneficiary to deduct a proportionate part of the purchase-money if the property has been deteriorated by the Ordinances or omissions of the trustee or purchaser. (2) Nothing in this section- (a) Impairs the rights of lessees and others who, before the institution of a suit to have the property declared subject to the trust or retransferred, have contract in good faith with the trustee or purchaser; or (b) Entitles the beneficiary to have the property declared subject to the trust or retransferred where he, being competent to contract, has himself, without coercion or undue influence having been brought to bear on him, ratified the sale to the trustee with full knowledge of the fact of the case and of his rights as against the trustee.