{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-75",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-75.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/75",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Superintendence order as to investment and distribution of trust property",
  "text": "(1) The court may, on the application of one or more of the trustees, order the accountant of court to superintend the trustees’ administration of the trust insofar as that administration relates to—\n(a) the investment of trust property, and\n(b) the distribution of trust property among creditors and beneficiaries.\n(2) If the order (to be known as a “superintendence order”) is granted, the accountant of court—\n(a) must, annually, examine and audit the trustees’ accounts, and\n(b) may report to the court, and obtain the court’s directions, on any question which may arise with regard to the administration superintended.\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. 75 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/75",
    "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."
}