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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/2",
  "legislation_title": "Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "General powers of trustees",
  "text": "(1) Except in so far as the trust deed expressly provides otherwise (or, in a case where there is no trust deed, the context requires or implies otherwise) the trustees have in relation to the trust property all the powers of a natural person beneficially entitled to the property.\n(2) But this section is without prejudice to—\n(a) a trustee’s fiduciary duty (including a trustee’s duty to fulfil the trust purposes),\n(b) a trustee’s duty of care, and\n(c) any restriction or exclusion imposed by or under this Act or any other enactment.\n(3) This section applies irrespective of when the trust was created.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 88(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving and Transitory Provision) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/2/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:02.065044+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}