GPTA 45 — Charity Commissioner may with consent be appointed trustee of settlement by grantor

Gujarat Public Trusts Act (Bombay Public Trusts 1950 as amended), 2011

Statutory text

(1) Any person intending to create a public trust may by the instrument creating the trust and with the consent of the Charity Commissioner appoint him by that name or any other description to be the trustee of such trust:

Provided that the consent of the Charity Commissioner shall be recited in the said instrument and that such instrument shall be executed by the Charity Commissioner or any officer duly authorised by him in that behalf.

(2) Upon such appointment the trust property shall vest in the Charity Commissioner and shall be held by him upon the terms declared in such instrument.

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