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may, by writing, appoint one or more other persons (whether or not being the persons exercising the power) to be a trustee or trustees in the place of the trustee so deceased, remaining out of the Colony, desiring to be discharged, refusing, or being unfit or being incapable, or being an infant, as aforesaid.
(2) Where a trustee has been removed under a power contained in the instrument creating the trust, a new trustee or new trustees may be appointed in the place of the trustee who is removed, as if he were dead, or, in the case of a corporation, as if the corporation desired to be discharged from the trust, and the provisions of this section shall apply accord. ingly, but subject to the restrictions imposed by this Ordinance on the number of trustees.
(3) Where a corporation being a trustee is or has been dissolved, either before or after the commence- ment of this Ordinance, then, for the purposes of this section and of any enactment replaced thereby, the corporation shall be deemed to be and to have been from the date of the dissolution incapable of acting in the trusts or powers reposed in or conferred on the corporation.
(4) The power of appointment given by sub-section (1) of this section or any similar previous enactment to the personal representatives of a last surviving or continuing trustee shall be and shall be deemed al- ways to have been exercisable by the executors for the time being (whether original or by representation) of such surviving or continuing trustee who have proved the will of their testator or by the adminis- trators for the time being of such trustee without the concurrence of any executor who has renounced or has not proved.
(5) But a sole or last surviving executor intending to renounce, or all the executors where they all intend to renounce, shall have and shall be deemed always to have had power, at any time before renouncing probate, to exercise the power of appointment given by this section, or by any similar previous enactinent, if willing to act for that purpose and without thereby accepting the office of exccutor.
(6) Where a sole trustee, other than a trust cor- poration is or has been originally appointed to act in a trust, or where, in the case of any trust, there are not more than three trustees (none of them being a trust corporation) either original or substituted and whether appointed by the court or otherwise, then and in any such case-
(a) the person or persons nominated for the pur- pose of appointing new trustees by the instru- ment, if any, creating the trust; or
(b) if there is no such person, or no such person able and willing to act, then the trustee or trustees for the time being;
may, by writing, appoint another person or other persons to be an additional trustee or additional trus- tees, but it shall not be obligatory to appoint any additional trustee, unless the instrument, if any, creating the trust, or any statutory enactment pro- vides to the contrary, nor shall the number of trustees be increased beyond four by virtue of any such ap pointment.
(7) Every new trustee appointed under this section, as well before as after all the trust property becomes by law, or by assurance, or otherwise, vested in him, shall have the same powers, authorities, and discre- tions, and may in all respects act as if he had been originally appointed a trustee by the instrument, if any, creating the trust.
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