SETTLED LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 97 Protection of trustees generally

SETTLED LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 97

The trustees of a settlement, or any of them—

        (a)     shall not be liable for giving or withholding any consent, or for not making, bringing, taking or doing any such application, action, proceeding or thing, as they might make, bring, take, or do; and

        (b)     in case of a purchase of land with capital money arising under this Act, or of an exchange, partition, lease or other disposition, shall not be liable for any contract made by the tenant for life, or statutory owner or answerable as regards any price, consideration or fine; and

        (c)     shall not be liable to see to or answerable for the investigation of the title, or answerable for a conveyance of land, if the conveyance purports to convey the land in the proper mode; and

        (d)     shall not be liable in respect of purchase money paid by them by the direction of the tenant for life or statutory owner to any person joining in the conveyance as a conveying party, or as giving a receipt for the purchase money, or in any other character, or in respect of any other money paid by them by the direction of the tenant for life or statutory owner on the purchase, exchange, partition, lease or other disposition.

No. 3771 s. 98.