{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-3.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/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Assumption of additional trustee",
  "text": "(1) Except in so far as the trust deed, expressly or by implication, provides otherwise (or, in a case where there is no trust deed, the context requires or implies otherwise), the trustees may assume an additional trustee.\n(2) Subsection (3) applies where—\n(a) a protector has been appointed in respect of the trust,\n(b) there has been conferred on the protector, by virtue of paragraph (b) of section 53(3), the power to direct the assumption of an additional trustee, and\n(c) the protector gives such a direction.\n(3) An additional trustee must, without delay, be assumed by the other trustees.\n(4) This section applies irrespective of when the trust was created.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}