Official Trustees Act, 1913
10. Power of High Court to appoint Official Trustee to be
trustee of property
(1) If any property is subject to a trust other than a trust
which the Official Trustee is prohibited from accepting under the provisions of
this Act, and there is no trustee within the local limits of the ordinary or
extraordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court willing or capable
to act in the trust, the High Court may on application make an order for the
appointment of the Official Trustee by that name with his consent to be the
trustee of such property.
(2) Upon such order such property shall vest in the Official
Trustee and shall be held by him upon the same trusts as the same was held
previously to such order, and the previous trustee or trustees (if any) shall
be exempt from the liability as trustees of such property save in respect of
acts done before the date of such order.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the
provisions of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (2 of 1882).