TRUSTEE ACT 1936 - SECT 26
TRUSTEE ACT 1936 - SECT 26
26—Power of trustees of renewable leaseholds to renew and raise money
for the purpose
(1) A trustee of any
leaseholds for lives or years which are renewable from time to time, either
under any covenant or contract, or by custom or usual practice, may, if he
thinks fit, and shall, if thereto required by any person having any beneficial
interest present or future or contingent, in the leaseholds, use his best
endeavours to obtain from time to time a renewed lease of the same
hereditaments on the accustomed and reasonable terms, and for that purpose may
from time to time make or concur in making a surrender of the lease for the
time being subsisting, and do all such other acts as are requisite: Provided
that, where by the terms of the settlement or will, the person in possession
for his life or other limited interest is entitled to enjoy the same without
any obligation to renew or to contribute to the expense of renewal, this
section shall not apply, unless the consent in writing of that person is
obtained to the renewal on the part of the trustee.
(2) If money is
required to pay for the renewal, the trustee effecting the renewal may pay
that money out of any money then in his hands in trust for the persons
beneficially interested in the lands to be comprised in the renewed lease, and
if he has not in his hands sufficient money for the purpose, he may raise the
money required by mortgage of the hereditaments to be comprised in the renewed
lease, or of any other hereditaments for the time being subject to the uses or
trusts to which those hereditaments are subject; and no person advancing money
upon a mortgage purporting to be under this power shall be bound to see that
the money is wanted, or that no more is raised than is wanted for the purpose.
(3) This section
applies to trusts created either before or after the commencement of this Act;
but nothing in this section shall authorise any trustee to do anything which
he is in express terms forbidden to do, or to omit to do anything which he is
in express terms directed to do, by the instrument creating the trust.