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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 1894 - onwards
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7. Trustees not to convert inscribed stock into certificates to bearer.

(1) A trustee, unless authorised by the terms of his trust, shall not apply for or hold any certificate to bearer issued under the authority of any of the following Acts, that is to say:

(a) The India Stock Certificate Act, 1863;

(b) The National Debt Act, 1870;

(c) The Local Loans Act, 1875;

(d) The Colonial Stock Act, 1877.

(2) Nothing in this section shall impose on the Bank of England or of Ireland, or on any person authorised to issue any such certificates, any obligation to inquire whether a person applying for such a certificate is or is not a trustee, or subject them to any liability in the event of their granting any such certificate to a trustee, nor invalidate any such certificate if granted.