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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-7.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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Removal of trustee by court",
  "text": "(1) Where a trustee—\n(a) is unfit to carry out the duties of a trustee,\n(b) purports to carry out those duties but does so in a way which is inconsistent with, or might be inconsistent with, a trustee’s fiduciary duty,\n(c) has neglected the trustee’s duties as trustee,\n(d) is incapable, or\n(e) is untraceable,\nthe court may, on the application of one or more of the other trustees, of a beneficiary or of any other person with an interest in the trust property, remove the trustee from office.\n(2) The court ceases to have power at common law to remove a trustee.\n(3) This section applies irrespective of when the trust was created.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 88(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 26.6.2024 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2024/164, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "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/7",
    "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."
}