Singapore legislation

Section 16

of Trustees Act 1967

Section 16

Power to compound liabilities

(1)

A personal representative, or 2 or more trustees acting together, or, subject to the restrictions imposed in regard to receipts by a sole trustee not being a trust corporation, a sole acting trustee where by the instrument (if any) creating the trust, or by statute, a sole trustee is authorised to execute the trusts and powers reposed in him or her, may, if and as he, she or they think fit —

(a)

accept any property before the time at which it is made transferable or payable;

(b)

sever and apportion any blended trust funds or property;

(c)

pay or allow any debt or claim on any evidence that he, she or they think sufficient;

(d)

accept any composition or any security for any debt or for any property claimed;

(e)

allow any time for payment of any debt; or

(f)

compromise, compound, abandon, submit to arbitration or otherwise settle any debt, account, claim or thing whatever relating to the testator’s or intestate’s estate or to the trust.

(2)

For any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to (f), any of those persons may enter into, give, execute and do any agreements, instruments of composition or arrangement, releases, and other things as to him, her or them seem expedient, without being responsible for any loss occasioned by any act or thing so done by him, her or them if he or she has or they have discharged the statutory duty of care.

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