Central Bank Act, 1971

Application of certain instruments.

39.—Where

(a) the business agreed to be transferred consists of or includes the business of acting as trustee, executor, guardian or in any other fiduciary capacity, and

(b) the transferor was or is granted probate or administration or appointed trustee, executor, guardian or in any other fiduciary capacity by an instrument consisting of—

(i) an order of a court,

(ii) a trust deed, settlement, covenant or agreement, or

(iii) a will, codicil or other testamentary instrument,

or

by any testamentary act other than those aforesaid (whether the instrument or act was made, executed or done before or after the transfer date),

the instrument or act shall as from the transfer date be read and construed and have effect as if for any reference therein to the transferor there were substituted a reference to the transferee.