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Section 23(1) exonerates trustees who acted in good faith from loss resulting from the appointment of their agents. It is uncertain whether trustees are still required to act with reasonable prudence in appointing an agent. Section 23(2) has a limited application to agents appointed to deal with trust property abroad.

As an official public record, notices can only be placed in The Gazette by registered and verified persons acting in an official capacity, who have the authority to create an official record of fact ? for example, insolvency practitioners, solicitors, or executors of a will.

A deceased estates notice is an advertisement placed in The Gazette which contains the details of a deceased person and the executor/administrator, so that anyone or any organisation owed money by the deceased person's estate can come forward.

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

A Section 27 notice is an advertisement that states that the deceased has died, and the estate is about to be distributed. The purpose of this is to ensure that all creditors know that they need to come forward and make a claim before the estate funds have been handed out to the beneficiaries.

A Section 27 of the Trustee Act 1925 enables trustees or personal representatives to protect themselves from liability against any claims from creditors and/or beneficiaries that they have not had any notice of at the time that they convey or distribute the property in question, provided that the notice placed complies ...