Sample Family Trust
Sample Family Trust
DEED OF TRUST
between
XXX
("the Founder")
and
XXX
and
Trustees
PREAMBLE
A. It is the intention and desire of the Founder to create a Trust for the welfare and
benefit of
B. The Founder and Trustees hereby agree that the said Trust be established, on the
terms
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 For the purposes of this deed, unless the context indicates otherwise:
1.1.1 the "Trustees" means the first Trustees and\or those further persons appointed as
Trustees under this deed;
1.1.2 "the beneficiaries" means that person or those persons who may from time to time
be selected by the Trustees in their entire and absolute discretion to be a beneficiary in
respect of benefits, payments or distributions of the income, profits, losses or capital profits or
capital gains, capital losses, Trust Property or capital or both under the Trust, from amongst
members of the classes consisting of:
1.1.2.1 XXX
1.1.2.5 Any trust established for the benefit of any of the aforementioned;
1.1.2.6 Failing the existence of any members of the classes set out in the sub-clauses supra,
only in that event, the Founder's heirs as determined in accordance with the Intestate
Succession Act, No 81 of 1987, as amended,
capital profits or capital gains, capital losses or Trust property shall then
vest in a beneficiary;
1.1.4 "the Trust" means the Trust created in terms of this deed;
1.1.5.2 any other monies, property or assets which the Trustees, in their capacity as such,
may acquire by donation, inheritance, purchase, investment, re-investment, loan, exchange
or otherwise, and
1.1.7 "person" means natural persons, duly registered Trusts, juristic persons,
associations, foundations, funds, companies, partnerships, the state or any organ of the state
and close corporations;
1.1.8 "welfare", besides the ordinary meaning of the word, also means the benefit, comfort,
maintenance, education (including tertiary education), advancement in life and pleasures of
the person concerned and shall include but not be limited to the cost of living, travelling,
vacations, medical, dental and similar services, entertainment, tax, general care and
provision, insurance, accommodation, motor vehicles, establishment in a business or a
profession of the person concerned and all matters and purposes which the Trustees, in their
discretion, consider to be in the interest or for the advantage of such person;
1.1.9 the words "capital", "capital gain", "capital profit", "capital losses", "losses",
"operating loss", "assessed loss", "nett loss", "profits", and "income" shall be given their
widest meaning and shall include assets of any kind and the word "distribute" and/or "pay"
and its derivatives shall mean and include the words pay, deliver, use, benefit, make-over,
give, possess or transfer and their respective derivatives;
1.1.10 the word "descendants" shall be given its widest meanings and shall include
descendants (born or to be born) and adopted children; (the intent and purpose being that for
all purposes under this Trust an adopted child shall be deemed to be the lawful issue of the
person or persons who adopted him/her).
1.1.11 any reference in this Trust to any Statutory or Legislative Act shall be a reference to
such Act in effect on the date of signature of this Trust, or to any amendment or replacement
of such Act; and
1.1.12 words importing the masculine gender shall include the female gender, and the
singular shall include the plural and vice versa.
2. SETTLEMENT
The Founder irrevocably settles on the Trustees as the initial subject matter, assets to the
value of R500.00 to be held by them for the welfare and benefit of the beneficiaries upon the
terms set out in this deed, which settlement the Trustees accept. The initial subject matter
shall be capable of being added to and increased from time to time.
4.1.2 at the sole, absolute and unfettered discretion of the Trustees to distribute or pay
any income, capital profits or capital of the Trust, subject to the provisions hereof, for the
welfare of any beneficiary.
4.2 The Trustees are hereby empowered to exercise the powers afforded to them in
terms of this deed to utilize and apply the Trust property to any other objective
whatsoever.
5.1 Upon the Founder ceding, selling or transferring any assets, investments or
other property to the Trustees, he/she shall be excluded from any right, title and
interest therein and the control thereof and all right, title and interest therein,
including every right of negotiation, shall vest in the Trustees in their fiduciary
capacities, subject to the under mentioned terms, provisions, conditions and Trust
instructions.
5.2 Howsoever or wherever the capital, income and/or assets of the Trust may
be held or registered, they shall be held for the Trust and at no time shall the Trustees
be deemed to acquire for themselves or on their personal account any contingent
and/or vested right or interest in the capital, income, Trust property and/or assets of
the Trust save insofar as the Trustee may be a beneficiary of the Trust.
5.3.1 to indicate clearly in their bookkeeping that the Trust property or any capital
profits, capital gains, profits or income of the Trust is held by them in their capacities
as Trustees;
5.3.2 if applicable, to register Trust property or keep the Trust property registered
in such a manner to make it clear from the registration that it is a Trust asset;
5.3.4 in respect of any other Trust asset to make such asset clearly identifiable as a
Trust asset; and
6.1 There shall at all times be not less than two Trustees of the Trust, the first
Trustees accept their appointment as such.
6.2 If at any time there be fewer than two Trustees in office the remaining
Trustee shall during such time act only to fill the vacancy in such office.
6.3 Subject to 6.2 above and 6.4 below, any vacancy in the office of Trustee shall
be filled from time to time by such person as shall be nominated by the Trustees
remaining in office.
6.4 As far as he is capable of doing so, upon any Trustee ceasing to be a Trustee
the Founder shall nominate a replacement Trustee. Upon the Founder ceasing to be a
Trustee, her father, DIEDERICK JOHANNES KRIEL, shall be appointed a Trustee of the
Trust.
6.7 The Trustees in office from time to time shall at all times have the right to
nominate and appoint such additional Trustee or Trustees as they may decide,
provided that their decision to do so shall be unanimous.
6.8 The Trustees for the time being in office may appoint from amongst
themselves an administrative Trustee who shall be entitled to charge fees for services
rendered to the trust as administrative trustee, alternatively that any such other
experts or suitably qualified people may be appointed as Trustees or managers or
consultants or employees to assist in the running and administration and operation of
the Trust.
7.1 A Trustee shall be entitled to appoint another person (approved by the other
Trustees in writing) to act as his alternate during his temporary absence or temporary
unavailability to act as Trustee. An alternate Trustee, while so acting, shall have all
the duties, functions and powers of the Trustee he represents.
8.1.1 resigns (which he shall be entitled to do) after giving written notice to the
Master of the High Court and the Trustees for the time being of the Trust;
8.1.2 dies;
8.1.6 is not authorized to act as such by the Master of the High Court;
8.1.7 is removed from office by order of court or the Master of the High Court;
8.1.8 becomes disqualified in terms of the Companies Act in force from time to
time, to act as a Director of a company.
9.1 The Trustees shall have the power to deal with the Trust property, capital
and/or income and or capital profits or gains of the Trust for the benefit and purposes
of the Trust, in their discretion, for which purposes they are granted the widest powers
and authority, including and without prejudice to the generality of the aforegoing, the
following specific powers and authorities:
9.1.1 to open and operate any banking account or facility and/or building society
account or facility, apply for any credit or debit cards and to draw and issue cheques
and to receive cheques, deposits, promissory notes and/or bills of exchange, and
attend to any of the latter by electronic, telephonic or internet means;
to acquire, dispose of, invest in, let or hire, exchange, and/or barter movable, immovable or
incorporeal property and to sign and execute all requisite documents and to do all things
necessary for the purposes of effecting and registering, if needs be, the transfer according to
law of any such property. In exercising any powers of sale, whether conferred in this sub-
clause or otherwise, they shall be entitled to cause such sale to be effected by public auction
or by private treaty and in such manner and on such terms and conditions as they in their
sole and absolute discretion may deem fit and in exercising any powers of lease they shall be
entitled to cause any property to be let at such rental, for such period and on such terms and
conditions as they, in their sole and absolute discretion may deem fit;
9.1.3 to invest in shares, stocks, debentures, debenture stock, unit trusts,
warrants, options, bonds, gilts, securities, promissory notes, bills of exchange and
other negotiable instruments, in the event of a company or a unit trust scheme
prohibiting, in terms of its articles or regulations, the transfer of shares or units into
the name of the Trust as such, the shares or units shall be registered in their personal
names or in the names of their representatives and shall be held as nominees on
behalf of the Trust;
9.1.4 to retain and allow the Trust property or any part or parts thereof to remain
in the present state of investment thereof for so long as they think fit;
9.1.5 to lend money on such terms and at such interest, and to such persons
(including beneficiaries and any Trustee of the Trust, or any director or shareholder of
any company in which the Trust, any Trustee or beneficiary is interested, directly or
indirectly or to companies in which the Trustees in their representative capacities or
any beneficiary, holds shares, directly or indirectly) as the Trustees may determine,
and with or without security as the Trustees may determine;
9.1.7 in their sole and absolute discretion, to borrow money for the purposes of
discharging any liability of the Trust and/or for the purpose of paying income tax
and/or for the purpose of making payment of capital and/or income, and or capital
profits or gains to any beneficiary and/or for the purpose of making a loan to any
beneficiary and/or for the purpose of making an investment and/or for the purposes of
preserving any asset or investment of the Trust and/or for the purposes of conducting
any type of business or in order to provide any type of services on behalf of the Trust
and/or any other purpose deemed necessary or desirable by the Trustees, at such
time or times, at such rate of interest or other consideration for any such loan and
upon such terms and conditions as they may deem desirable. Such borrowings may be
made from any suitable person or persons and, should they consider it advisable to do
so, the Trustees may secure the payment of any such loan by pledging or mortgaging
the Trust property or any part thereof or by any other security device. Any such loan
or loans may be extended, renewed or repaid from time to time as the Trustees may
deem to be in the best interest of the Trust;
9.1.8 obtain and utilise in the name of the Trust, membership in and any credit
facilities from any agricultural or other society and for this purpose to encumber the
Trust property or any part thereof by way of pledge, hypothec or mortgage as
security;
9.1.9 the Trustees shall be entitled to make donations for charitable, ecclesiastical,
educational or other like purposes either from the income, capital profits or gains or
the capital of the Trust;
9.1.12 to appear before the Registrar of Deeds, Registrar of Claims, conveyancer or
other proper officer and to execute any Mortgage Bond or Deed of Hypothecation as
security for loans of money or as security for any other indebtedness or obligation
contracted on the trust's behalf
9.1.13 To appear before any Notary Public and to execute any Notarial Deed;
9.1.14 collect rent, cancel leases, and to evict a lessee from property belonging to the Trust;
9.1.15 to improve, alter, repair and maintain any movable and immovable property
of the Trust and further to improve and develop immovable property by erecting
buildings thereon or otherwise, to expend the capital or income, profits or capital
profits of the Trust for the preservation, maintenance and upkeep of such property or
buildings, to demolish such buildings or effect such improvements thereto as they
may consider fit;
9.1.16 to sue for, recover and receive all debts or sums of money, goods, effects and
things, which are due, owing, payable or belong to the Trust; institute any action in
any forum to enforce any benefits or rights on behalf of the trust;
9.1.17 to allow time for the payment of debts due to them and grant credit in
respect of the whole or any part of the purchase price arising on the sale of any assets
constituting portion of the Trust property, in either case with or without security and
with or without interest, as they may think fit;
9.1.19 to attend all meetings of creditors of any person indebted to the Trust
whether in sequestration, liquidation, judicial management or otherwise, and to vote
for the election of a Trustee and/or liquidator and/or judicial manager and to vote on
all questions submitted to any such meetings of creditors and generally to exercise all
rights of or afforded to a creditor;
9.1.20 to exercise the voting power attached to any share, stock, stock debenture,
interest, unit or any company in which the share, stock, stock debenture, security,
interest or unit is held, in such manner as they may deem fit, and to take such steps
or enter into such agreements with other persons as they may deem fit, for the
purposes of amalgamation, merger of or compromise in any company in which the
shares, stock, debenture, interest, or unit are held;
9.1.21 to subscribe to the memorandum and articles of association of and apply for
shares in any company and to apply for the registration of any company;
9.1.22 to determine whether any surplus on the realisation of any asset or the
receipt of any dividends, distribution or bonus or capitalisation shares by the Trust be
regarded as income or capital of the Trust;
9.1.25 to exercise and take up and realise any rights of conversion or subscription
attaching, or appertaining to any share, stock, interest, debenture or unit forming part
of the Trust property;
9.1.26 to guarantee the obligations of any person, to enter into indemnities and to
bind the Trust as surety for, and/or co-principal debtor in solidum with any person
and/or company in respect of any debt or obligation of that person and/or company,
whether for consideration or gratuitously on such terms as they consider fit, including
the renunciation of the benefits of excussion and division. The Trustees shall be
entitled in respect of any obligations or liabilities so assumed by them to pledge,
mortgage, cede in security or otherwise encumber all or any of the Trust property in
such manner and subject to such terms and conditions as they shall deem fit as
collateral for such obligations.;
9.1.27 to give receipt, releases or other effectual discharges for any sum of money
or thing recovered or received;
9.1.29 to enter into any partnership, joint venture, conduct of business or other
association with any other person, firm, company or trust for the doing or performance
of any transaction or series of transactions within the powers of the Trustees in terms
hereof, and/or to acquire and/or hold any assets in co-ownership or partnership with
any person;
9.1.31 to effect an assurance policy on the life of the Founder, a Trustee and/or a
beneficiary, to effect a short term insurance policy, or to take cession of such policy
and to pay the premiums for such policy out of the income, capital profits or gains or
capital of the Trust. To continue any such policy and/or to surrender, redeem, dispose
of, encumber and borrow against any such policy, with the right generally to deal with
any such policy as they in their discretion deem fit. If during the currency of the Trust
a person so assured should die while the assurance policy on his life is still in
operation, the proceeds of such policy shall form part of the Trust property;
9.1.32 to contract on behalf of the Trust and to ratify, adopt or reject contracts
made on behalf or for the benefit of the Trust, either before or after its creation;
9.1.33 to employ and pay out of the Trust any other person or other persons to do
any act or acts, although the Trustees or any of them could have done any such act or
acts;
9.1.34 to conduct or carry on any business or to provide any type of services on
behalf of and for the benefit of the Trust, and to employ the Trust property and
income or any capital profit or gain, in the conduct of any such business;
9.1.35 to hold the whole or any part of the Trust property in the name of the Trust, or in
their names, or in the names of any other persons nominated by them for that purpose;
9.1.36 in the event of the Trustees obtaining the necessary authority, to incorporate
any company, or establish a Trust in any place in the world at the expense of the Trust
with limited or unlimited liability for the purpose of inter alia, acquiring the whole or
any part of the assets of the Trust. The consideration on the sale of the assets of the
Trust, or any part thereof, to any company incorporated pursuant to this sub-clause,
may consist of wholly or partly paid debentures or debenture stock or other securities
of the company, and may be credited as fully paid and may be allotted to or otherwise
vested in the Trustees and be capital monies in the hands of the Trustees;
9.1.37 in the event of the Trustees obtaining the necessary authority, to hold the
Trust property or any part thereof in or to transfer the administration and
management of the Trust property or any part thereof to any country in the world;
9.1.38 in the Trustees sole discretion to allow any beneficiary, or their parents
and/or their guardians and/or the Founder and/or his/her spouse, free of charge, to
occupy or use any immovable or movable property forming part of the Trust;
9.1.39 to pay out of the income, capital profits or, at their discretion, out of the
capital or the Trust property all rates, taxes, duties and other impositions lawfully
levied or imposed on the Trust property or income or capital profits or gains of the
Trust or any part thereof or on any beneficiary hereunder on account of his interest in
the Trust hereby created or which may be imposed on the Trustees in respect of
matters arising out of the Trust;
9.1.40 to pay out of the income, capital profits or out of the Trust property all and/or
any expenses (including legal fees) incurred in the administration of the Trust or any
expenditure incurred pertaining to any activity undertaken by the Trust, or on behalf
of any Trustee or beneficiary;
9.1.41 to accept and acquire for the purpose of the Trust any gifts, bequests, grants,
donations or inheritance from any person or estate, or payments from any person,
firm, company or association that may be given, bequeathed or paid to them as an
addition or with the intention to add to the funds hereby donated to them. Any
additions so accepted and acquired shall be deemed to form part of the Trust property
to be administered and dealt with subject to the terms of this deed;
9.1.43 to do all or any of the above things and to exercise all or any of the above
rights and powers in the Republic of South Africa or in any other part of the world.
10. ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST
Subject to their giving effect to the terms of this deed, the Trustees shall, in administering the
Trust, adopt such procedures and take such administrative steps as they shall from time to
time deem necessary or desirable.
11.1 The Trustees may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and
otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit. Any Trustee shall be entitled on
reasonable written notice to the other Trustees to summon a meeting of the Trustees.
Ail Trustees for the time being in the Republic of South Africa shall be given
reasonable notice of any meeting of the Trustees.
11.2 The meetings may be held either by the quorum of Trustees being physically
present as stipulated in clause 11.4 below, or by the quorum of Trustees interacting
by way of any means of electronic communication or such other advanced means of
communication as decided by the Trustees which shall include but not be limited to
radio, telephone, closed circuit television or other electronic means of audio or
audio/visual communication. The meeting shall be deemed to be held on the day on
which and at the time at which the meeting in the manner prescribed in terms of this
clause was held. In the event that a meeting is held where the physical presence of
the Trustees are required, the venue of such meeting shall be decided upon by the
Trustees.
11.4 Subject to 6.2 above, the quorum necessary at any such meeting shall be
two Trustees, provided that for so long as XXX is a Trustee, her presence (in person or
by alternate) shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, save that in the event there
are only two Trustees nominated to the board of the Trust both their presence shall be
necessary to constitute a quorum.
11.5 If there is no quorum, the Trustees may adjourn the meeting for 24 hours or
such longer period as they shall determine, and at the continuation of the said
adjourned meeting those Trustees who are present shall form a quorum provided that
the absent Trustees have received reasonable notice of the adjournment and
continuation of the meeting.
11.6 The Trustees themselves shall determine policy and procedures to be followed at
meetings.
11.7 The Trustees shall keep minutes of all meetings of Trustees concerning the
affairs of the Trust.
11.8 The Trustees shall meet at least once a year and shall decide upon the use
and/or allocations of capital gains, capital profits, capital losses, operating losses,
assessed losses, nett losses and profits earned or losses incurred or accrued by the
Trust, and in accordance with clause 20.1, within their sole, absolute and unfettered
discretion to determine, whether they are to distribute and pay any benefits to any
beneficiary or to hold any capital gains, capital profits, capital losses, operating losses,
assessed losses, nett losses, profits for the Trust.
11.9 Any Trustee shall be entitled in writing to appoint any other person
(including one of the other Trustees) to act and vote on his behalf at all or any
specified meetings of the Trustees.
11.10 A written resolution signed by all Trustees for the time being, or their
respective alternates, shall be as effective as a resolution taken at a meeting of
Trustees.
All negotiable instruments, contracts, deeds and other documents which require to be
signed on behalf of the Trust shall be signed in such manner as the Trustees shall
from time to time determine; provided that all such negotiable instruments, contracts,
deeds and other documents shall be signed by XXX or her alternate, should she be a
Trustee at the time.
13.1 Unless otherwise provided for in this deed, in the event of any
disagreements arising between the Trustees at any time, the view of the majority shall
prevail and be of the same force and effect as if it were a unanimous decision of all
the Trustees. Should there be an equality of votes, the chairperson shall not have a
second or casting vote,
13.2 In the event there are only two Trustees nominated to the board of the Trust,
all decisions to be taken by them, to be effective, must be by unanimous consent. Any
issue, event, resolution or motion which is not unanimously agreed upon shall
constitute a dispute, disagreement or deadlock and shall be resolved as set out below.
13.3 Any dispute, disagreement or deadlock which may arise between the
Trustees shall be submitted to a referee who shall be an advocate or an attorney of no
less than ten years standing and who, failing agreement between the Trustees on the
appointment within 10 days after the deadlock will have arisen, shall be nominated by
the chairperson or acting chairperson of the Bar Council alternatively the president or
acting president of the Law Society {whichever applicable) where the majority of the
Trustees may be resident. Any Trustee shall be entitled to appear personally or by a
single agent, duly appointed, but without any legal or other professional assistance
before the referee, and the proceedings shall be conducted as informally as possible.
The referee in his discretion shall determine the procedure to be followed and is
empowered to make an award in regard to his costs and any other costs incurred in
the proceedings, including an order that some or al! of the costs be paid out of the
Trust property or income. The provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1965, or any statute
which replaces it, shall not apply. The decision of the referee shall be final and binding
on the Trustees and no Trustee or beneficiary shall make such decision the subject of
any legal proceedings.
The Trustees shall cause to be kept complete and accurate records of all receipts,
expenditure, assets and liabilities of the Trust. Promptly after the last day of
FEBRUARY {or as at such other date as the Trustees shall from time to time
determine) in each year, the Trustees shall cause to be prepared (in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles) financial statements for such period
consisting of a balance sheet, a statement of income, capital profits and/or gains and
expenditure and a statement of the Trust property and liabilities at the close of such
period. The Trustees shall have the right (but shall not be obliged) from time to time
to appoint a practicing Chartered Accountant (SA) to act as the auditor of the Trust,
who shall report on the financial statements in the customary manner.
15. REMUNERATION
The Trustees may from time to time determine a reasonable remuneration which shall
be paid to them for the administration of the Trust.
Any Trustee engaged in any profession shall be entitled to charge for services
rendered to the Trust at a rate to which he or his firm would have been entitled in the
ordinary course of his profession or business.
All bona fide costs and expenses incurred by the Trustees in the administration of the
Trust or the exercise of the powers conferred upon them, shall be paid by the Trustees
out of the Trust income, capital profits and/or Trust property as decided by the
Trustees.
19.1.1 each Trustee is absolved from all responsibility in the event of the bona fide
exercise of his powers resulting in any loss of Trust property or capital, capital profit or
income from time to time under administration;
19.1.2 no Trustees shall be answerable for any act, omission, negligence, fraud or
improper investment of any Trustee or of any attorney, accountant, independent
contractor or agent employed by the Trustees, except for his/her own personal and
wilful fraud or dishonesty;
19.1.3 if the Trustees should bona fide make any payment to any person assumed
by them to be thereto entitled hereunder, and it is subsequently found that some
other person or persons is or are entitled thereto under this Deed, the Trustees shall
nevertheless not be responsible for the monies so paid;
19.1.4 a Trustee shall not be liable for any act of dishonesty committed by another
Trustee unless he was privy thereto and a Trustee shall not be bound to take any
proceedings against a co-Trustee for any breach or alleged breach of Trust committed
by such co-Trustee; and
19.1.5 the Trustees shall be indemnified out of and by the Trust against all claims
and demands that may be made upon them arising out of the bona fide exercise of
any of the powers conferred under this deed, subject, however, to the provisions of
section 9 of the Trust Property Control Act 57 of 1988.
DISTRIBUTIONS
20.1 Pending the distribution of the Trust property as hereinafter provided, none
of the income, losses, operating loss, assessed loss, nett loss, capital profits and or
capital gains or capital losses of the Trust shall be deemed to be attributable to the
share or the prospective or contingent share of any beneficiary, save that the
Trustees, may in their absolute, sole and unfettered discretion distribute, pay or make
over any income, losses, operating loss, assessed loss, nett loss, capital profits and or
capital gains, or capital losses to any beneficiary without maintaining equality as
between the beneficiaries, and further to utilise such income, losses, operating loss,
assessed loss, nett loss, capital profits and or capital gains, or capital losses to pay or
apply from time to time in such proportions as the Trustees may, in their sole and
absolute discretion, consider desirable for the benefit and welfare of all or any one or
more of the beneficiaries, without any obligation to maintain equality as between the
beneficiaries. The Trustees shall be entitled to accumulate the whole or any part of
such income, losses, operating loss, assessed loss, nett loss, capital profits and or
capital gains, or capital losses for any period they shall think fit and either retain the
same uninvested (without responsibility for any loss) or invest the same in any of the
securities or investments hereinbefore authorised.
20.2 The Trustees shall use, pay, distribute or apply the whole or portions of the
Trust capital and Trust property, in such proportions and at such time or times as they
in their sole, absolute and unfettered discretion determine, for the benefit of or to all
or any one or more of the beneficiaries, without the necessity to maintain equality
between the beneficiaries; provided that, without the unanimous consent of all the
Trustees for the time being, capital distributions shall not be made to a beneficiary
who is also a Trustee.
20.3 Further and subject to clauses 20.1 and 20.2 above, the Trustees shall in
their sole, absolute and unfettered discretion determine whether any distribution
which represents the payment or distribution of any capital profit or gain arising out of
the disposal of Trust property, asset or capital of the Trust, constitutes the vesting of
an interest in the capital profit or gain in respect of that disposal for purposes of para
80(2) of the Eighth Schedule to the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 irrespective of whether
the amount actually distributed is lower or higher than the amount of the capital gain
determined in respect of that disposal in terms of the Eighth Schedule to the Act.
In the event of all the Trust property, income and/or capital of the Trust having
already been used, paid or applied, the Trustees shall terminate the Trust upon the
written agreement of the then Trustees and beneficiaries of the Trust, and effect final
distributions in terms of 20.1, 20.2 and 20.3 above. Should perchance, any of the
remaining beneficiaries die prior to the date of vesting of the Trust property, their
share shall be paid to his/her issue by representation per stirpes in equal shares (if
however, such issue has not attained the age of 25 years the beneficiary's share shall
be held over until such issue attains the said 25 years). If any beneficiary shall die
before attaining a vested interest hereunder without leaving issue then the share of
the Trust property which would have gone to such beneficiary shall devolve upon the
remaining beneficiaries in equal shares or their issue by representation per stirpes.
Should, perchance, all the beneficiaries be deceased and there be income or capital of
the Trust or any Trust property on hand, the Trustees shall, in order to terminate the
Trust, pay or deliver such income or capital to or on behalf of the heir or heirs (testate
and/or intestate, as determined by the Trustee, having regard to the respective
financial circumstances of such heirs) of one, some or all of the beneficiaries, in such
proportions as the Trustees in their discretion determine.
21.3 If any beneficiary shall be a minor, the Trustees shall not be obliged to pay
any income or capital profits or gains of the Trust, or any Trust property, to which such
beneficiary may be entitled, into the Guardian's Fund, but the Trustees may either
retain such amounts and deal with them as part of the Trust property during the
minority of such beneficiary, or they shall be entitled to pay over such amounts either
to such minor beneficiary or to his parents or guardian as they in their sole and
absolute discretion think fit, and the receipt of such parent or guardian shall constitute
a complete discharge to the Trustees of all their obligations to the minor beneficiary in
regard to the amounts so paid over.
Any benefit to which any beneficiary shall become entitled (and any assets acquired by virtue
thereof and the income and fruits of such benefit and assets) shall be and remain the sole
property of the beneficiary concerned and shall not fall into any community of property nor be
subject to any marital power or right of administration of the spouse of such beneficiary or
any other person, nor be taken into account for any accrual, or any claim by a life partner or
common law husband or wife.
23.1 No beneficiary shall be entitled to any benefits, rights, awards or any hope of
and claim or entitlement to any income or capital profits or gains of the Trust or Trust
property, until any such benefit, right, award or hope vests in a beneficiary. Nothing
herein contained shall create or confer upon any beneficiary any right or claim to any
benefit or award or delivery of any assets hereunder.
23.2 Any benefit, right, award, spes, claim or entitlement a beneficiary may have
in terms of this trust shall not be capable of being pledged or in any way encumbered,
ceded, assigned, dealt with, disposed of or alienated whether voluntarily or as a result
of attachment in execution, insolvency or death as the case may be, and no such
pledge, encumbrance, cession assignment, dealing, disposal or alienation (whether
purported or accomplished) shall have any legal effect or be recognised by the
Trustees. A beneficiary for the purpose of this clause 23 shall include (but without
limitation) the executor and/or administrator and/or trustee of the estate of
testamentary trust of a deceased beneficiary, the trustee of any inter vivos trust
established for the benefit of a beneficiary, the trustee of an insolvent estate of any
insolvent beneficiary, the judicial manager or liquidator or any beneficiary which is a
company and any other person entitled to exercise any rights in respect of the
property of any beneficiary who is under any legal disability of any kind
23.3 No rights or hopes of the beneficiaries under this Trust and no part thereof
shall be attachable by any creditor of any beneficiary or vest in his Trustee in
insolvency and if, prior to any vesting, payment or award being made to any
beneficiary, he shall have committed or suffered any act, default or process of law,
whereby such rights or hopes or any part thereof would, but for the provisions of this
clause, become vested in or payable to any other party or parties or if any beneficiary
shall be declared insolvent or assign his estate in favour of his creditors or if an
attachment is made or execution is levied on or against the rights or hopes of any
beneficiary or any part thereof then and in any or all of such cases such rights and
hopes of the beneficiary concerned under
this Trust shall immediately and entirely thenceforth cease and those rights and hopes
shall thereupon and subject to the provisions below, vest in the Trustees to be dealt
with by them, subject to the conditions of paragraphs 23.3.1 and 23.3.2, namely:
23.3.1 no such beneficiary shall be obliged to repay to the Trust any amounts
previously paid or advanced to him by the Trust;
23.3.2 the Trustees shall be entitled, in their discretion, to continue to hold in this
Trust for the lifetime of the beneficiary concerned (or such lesser period as they may
decide on) the share or part of the share of the Trust Property and capital to which he
would, but for the provisions of this clause 23, have been or become entitled and to
pay, or without detracting from the other powers conferred on them and subject to
such conditions as they may decide to impose, to advance to or to apply for the
benefit of him or his brothers and sisters, his spouse, descendants or dependents for
his or their maintenance, such portion of the amount so held by them or of the income
accruing there from as they in their discretion shall deem fit, and in the case of a
Trust;
23.3.2.1 if the Trustees do continue to hold the said share of the Trust
Property or capital in Trust as aforesaid then, notwithstanding that the rights and
hopes of the beneficiary shall have ceased and determined and notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein contained, such rights and hopes shall, on the
beneficiary's death, devolve upon the parties entitled thereto by substitution
determined as at the date of the beneficiary's actual death.
23.4 No beneficiary shall be entitled to anticipate any benefits conferred by virtue
of this Trust or any rights accruing thereunder, nor shall a beneficiary be entitled to
cede, assign or pledge the same.
24.1 The Trustees shall have power in their absolute discretion, both generally
and specifically in the exercise of their powers under clauses 20, 21 and 23 above, to
create a sub-Trust of this Trust or create another Trust for the benefit of any
beneficiary or group of beneficiaries, with the same Trustees as this Trust may then
have or such other Trustees, and the Trust deed establishing the sub-Trust shall
contain substantially the same terms mutatis mutandis of this Trust, and to which the
Trustees may allocate the whole or such portion of the Trust property, capital profit,
gain and/or income as they in their absolute discretion shall think fit.
24.2 The Trustees of this Trust will be relieved of any further responsibility of any
part of the Trust property which is transferred to such further Trust created in terms of
the provisions of clause 24.1 or clause 24.4.
24.3 If a beneficiary repudiates any benefits which have or may accrue to him in
terms of this Trust, the Trustees shall have the power, in their sole discretion, to
substitute his descendants for him, and the Trustees are further empowered to create
a further Trust or Trusts for such substituted beneficiaries in accordance with the
applicable provisions of clause 24.1.
24.4 Notwithstanding anything in this Trust, if the Trustees in their sole and
absolute discretion deem it in the interests of a beneficiary or beneficiaries, then
instead of distributing the capital profit and/or any income, accumulated income or
Trust property on termination of the Trust to the beneficiary or beneficiaries, such
beneficiary's share shall be put in a Trust (whether a pre-existing Trust, or a
Trust created in terms of the provisions of clause 24.1) in which the beneficiary is
beneficially interested, or into a Corporation/Company in which the beneficiary is
beneficially interested. A beneficiary shall be deemed to be beneficially interested:
24.4.1 in a Trust (which shall mean and include any Trust created by any Deed of
Trust, Settlement, Declaration of Trust, Will, Codicil or other Instrument in any part of
the world) if any capital, capital profit or gain or income comprised in that Trust is or
may become liable to be transferred, paid, applied or appointed to him or for his
benefit either pursuant to the terms of the Trust or in consequence of the exercise of
any power or discretion thereby conferred upon any person; or
24.4.2 in a Corporation (which shall mean and include any corporation, company,
establishment, partnership, firm or other entity established or incorporated or
registered or carrying on business anywhere in the world) if the capital, capital profits
or gains or income of the Corporation is or may become transferred, paid, applied or
appointed to him or for his benefit either directly or indirectly and whether by reasons
of his shareholding or the terms of any Trust which is the shareholder or in
consequence of the exercise of any power or discretion conferred upon any person
under any Trust which is a shareholder or otherwise howsoever.
It is expressly provided in respect of any income, capital profits or gains or capital paid
to a Trust or Corporation in terms of this clause that the beneficiary concerned shall
have no rights in respect of the income, capital profit or capital gain or capital so paid
to the Trust or Corporation other than his interest as beneficiary or shareholder of
such Trust or Corporation.
26.1.1 no distribution shall be made by the Trustees to any person who is not for the
time being a resident of the Republic of South Africa where such distribution or any
consequent payment or delivery would constitute a contravention of the laws of the
Republic of South Africa relating to currency or exchange control, and
26.1.2 at all events and until otherwise unanimously resolved by the Trustees in
writing, the extent of the participation in benefits under the Trust of persons who are
not for the time being residents of the Republic of South Africa for the purposes of
such laws shall be limited so that neither the Trust nor any company in which it has
any direct or indirect interest may or could be:
The discretionary powers vested in the Trustees in terms of this Deed shall be
complete, exclusive and absolute and any decision made by them pursuant to any
such discretionary powers shall be binding and unchallengeable by any beneficiary
affected thereby or by any other person.
The Trustees for the time being of the Trust, whether originally or subsequently
appointed, shall not be required to furnish security to the Master of the High Court of
South Africa or any other official under The Trust Property Control Act 57 of 1988 or
any other legislation which may now be or which may hereafter become of force and
effect, for the performance of their duties as Trustees, unless the majority of Trustees
determine otherwise.
29. AMENDMENTS
29.1 While the Founder is alive or in existence, the provisions of this Trust Deed
may be amended or varied with the written agreement of all the Trustees for the time
being.
29.2 After the death of the Founder or termination , the provisions of this Trust
Deed may only be amended or varied with the written agreement of the then Trustees
and beneficiaries (duly assisted by their guardians if necessary) of the Trust.
29.3 No amendment to this Trust shall be of any force and effect to the extent
that any benefit shall be conferred by such amendment on the Founder or his/her
estate, nor shall any variation give the Founder, or any Trustee the power to
appropriate or dispose of any Trust property, on his awn, as he sees fit, for his own
benefit or for the benefit of his estate, whether such power is exercisable by him or
with his consent, and whether such power could be obtained directly or indirectly by
the exercise, with or without notice, of power exercisable by him or with his consent.