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Version date: 1 January 1894 - onwards
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35. Vesting orders as to stock and choses in action.

(1) In any of the following cases, namely:

(i) Where the High Court appoints or has appointed a new trustee; and

(ii) Where a trustee entitled alone or jointly with another person to stock or to a chose in action:

(a) is an infant, or

(b) is out of the jurisdiction of the High Court, or

(c) cannot be found; or

(d) neglects or refuses to transfer stock or receive the dividends or income thereof, or to sue for or recover a chose in action, according to the direction of the person absolutely entitled there to for twenty-eight days next after a request in writing has been made to him by the person so entitled, or

(e) neglects or refuses to transfer stock or receive the dividends or income thereof, or to sue for or recover a chose in action for twenty-eight days next after an order of the High Court for that purpose has been served on him; or

(iii) Where it is uncertain whether a trustee entitled alone or jointly with another person to stock or to a chose in action is alive or dead,