PUBLIC TRUSTEE ACT.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section
1. Appointment of public trustee.
2. Public trustee to be a corporation sole.
3. Power of public trustee to appoint agents, etc.
4. Powers and duties of public trustee.
5. Appointment of public trustee as trustee by person creating trust by trust deed.
6. Procedure in case of appointment of a public trustee as trustee under a will.
7. Appointment of public trustee by court.
8. Transfer of legacy, etc. of infant or lunatic to public trustee.
9. Security not required from public trustee.
10. Government liability for acts of public trustee.
14. Powers to incur expenditure.
15. Payments to minor beneficiaries in cases of small estates.
CHAPTER 161
PUBLIC TRUSTEE ACT.
Commencement: 15 July, 1937.
An Act to make provision for the appointment and duties of a public trustee.
1. Appointment of public trustee.
The Minister, by notice in the Gazette, may appoint some fit and proper person to be public trustee for Uganda, and may in like manner appoint a deputy or deputies to assist him or her, and every deputy so appointed shall, subject to the control of the public trustee, be competent to discharge any of the duties and exercise any of the powers of the public trustee, and when discharging those duties, or exercising those powers, shall have the same privileges and be subject to the same liabilities as the public trustee.
2. Public trustee to be a corporation sole.
The public trustee shall be a corporation sole by the name of the public trustee and as such shall have perpetual succession and an official seal, and may sue and be sued in his or her corporate name, but any instrument sealed by him or her shall not, by reason of his or her using a seal, be rendered liable to higher stamp duty than if he or she were an individual.
3. Power of public trustee to appoint agents, etc.
(1) A district commissioner shall be the agent in his or her area of the public trustee; but the public trustee may appoint such other person as he or she shall think fit to be his or her agent in that area either generally or in any particular trust estate or in any matter arising out
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