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TRUSTEE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 28

Protection by means of advertisements.

28.(1) With a view to the conveyance to, or distribution among, the persons
entitled to any real or personal property, the trustees of a settlement or of
a disposition on trust for sale or personal representatives may give notice by
publishing advertisements once in the Belfast Gazette and twice in each of any
two daily newspapers printed and published in Northern Ireland, or if the
property includes land, in any two newspapers circulating in the district in
which the land is situated, of their intention to make such conveyance or
distribution as aforesaid, and requiring any person interested to send to the
trustees or personal representatives within the time, not being less than two
months, fixed in the last of the notices, particulars of his claim in respect
of the property or any part thereof to which the notice relates.

(2) At the expiration of the time fixed by the notice the trustees or
personal representatives may convey or distribute the property or any part
thereof to which the notice relates, to or among the persons entitled thereto,
having regard only to the claims, whether formal or not, of which the trustees
or personal representatives then had notice and shall not, as respects the
property so conveyed or distributed, be liable to any person of whose claim
the trustees or personal representatives have not had notice at the time of
conveyance or distribution; but nothing in this section

(a)prejudices the right of any person to follow the property, or any property
representing the same, into the hands of any person, other than a purchaser,
who may have received it; or

(b)frees the trustees or personal representatives from any obligation to make
inquiries and searches or obtain official certificates of search similar to
those which an intending purchaser would be advised to make or obtain.

(3) This section applies notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the will
or other instrument, if any, creating the trust.

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