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Please note: Not to be used or relied upon without legal advice. These notes are for illustrative purposes ONLY.

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Private Trusts of Land / Property

Trusts of Land / Property in registered Conveyancing:

With private trusts, the duty of applying for any necessary restrictions falls on the trustees, though a beneficiary may also apply. The trustees will normally appoint Property Lawyers and Conveyancing Solicitors. The Registrar is obliged to enter a restriction without application in only one circumstance, though may do so in certain other cases if it appears to be necessary or desirable. The case when the Registrar is obliged to enter a restriction is when registering two or more persons as joint proprietors of a registered estate. A form A restriction must then be entered unless the Registrar is satisfied that the applicants hold on trust for themselves as beneficial joint tenants.

There are no Land Registry forms specifically for registering dispositions to or by trustees. The standard forms prescribed in schedule 1, Land Registration Rules 2003 must be used by the Property Lawyers and Conveyancing Solicitors. For example, a transfer of the whole of a registered title to or by trustees must be in form TR1. An application to register trustees as proprietors of an estate should be made by the Property Lawyers and Conveyancing Solicitors in form FR1 (if it is a first registration) or form AP1 (if it is a disposition of a registered estate), in the usual way.

Compulsory first registration of Land held under a trust of Land:

The events that trigger compulsory first registration of title are listed in section 4(1) Land Registration Act 2002. From 6 April 2009, two new events that trigger compulsory registration of title to Land / Property held under a trust of Land were added to the triggers listed in section 4(1) Land Registration Act 2002 by the Land Registration Act 2002 (Amendment) Order 2008. These new triggers are referred to as the 'new trustee trigger' and the 'partition trigger'.

The new trustee trigger:
The new trustee trigger applies when an unregistered freehold property estate or an unregistered leasehold property estate with more than seven years to run is transferred to a new trustee by deed, or by a vesting order under section 44 Trustee Act made in consequence of the appointment of a new trustee.

The Deed prepared by Property Lawyers and Conveyancing Solicitors which transfers the legal estate to a new trustee (and any continuing trustees) may be the deed of appointment of the new trustee, if it contains an express vesting declaration or one that is implied under section 40 Trustee Act or a memorandum executed as a deed evidencing the appointment of a new trustee by a resolution to which section 83 Charities Act 1993 applies, or it may be a separate conveyance or assignment by Deed that is made in consequence of the appointment of a new trustee.

A vesting order application made by Property Lawyers and Conveyancing Solicitors under section 44 Trustee Act can be made by the High Court or by a County Court to vest Land in a new trustee appointed by the Court under section 41 Trustee Act or out of Court.

The new trustee trigger does not apply when an unregistered freehold or leasehold estate held in trust for a trade union or an unincorporated employers' association (including a federated employers' association) is transferred on the appointment of a new trustee where section 13, Trade Union and labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 applies, so that a vesting declaration under section 40 Trustee Act is implied into the instrument in writing, including a written record of a resolution rather than a deed appointing a new trustee.

The new trustee trigger also does not apply on the appointment of a new trustee of a settlement under the Settled Land Act 1925.

The partition trigger:

The partition trigger applies on the transfer of an unregistered freehold property estate or an unregistered leasehold property estate with more than seven years to run that gives effect to the partition of Land held under a trust of Land among the beneficiaries of the trust.

Partition occurs where Land in a trust is divided and the separate parts are alloted among the beneficiaries, so terminating the trust as between some or all of the beneficiaries. Partition may take place at common law by agreement between all the beneficiaries themselves, in which case the trustees who in many cases will be the beneficiaries themselves, will give effect to the partition by transferring the legal property estate in the separate parts to the person entitled by Deed. Partition may also occur when trustees exercise their statutory power to partition Land under section 7 TLATA 1996 with the consent of the beneficiaries. Again, the trustees must give effect to the partition by transferring the legal property estate by Deed. The trustees will normally instruct Property Lawyers and Conveyancing Solicitors at an early stage of the transaction.

The partition triggers applies to a partition on whatever terms. For example, the partition may include the payment of equality money where a beneficiary receives more than their beneficial entitlement under the former trust.

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