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Section 71: Discharge of trustee
A trustee may be discharged from his office only as follows:–
- (a) by the extinction of the trust;
- (b) by the completion of his duties under the trust;
- (c) by such means as may be prescribed by the instrument of trust;
- (d) by appointment under this Act of a new trustee in his place;
- (e) by consent of himself and the beneficiary, or, where there are more beneficiaries than one, all the beneficiaries being competent to contract; or
- (f) by the Court to which a petition for his discharge is presented under this Act.
Source: official text of The Indian Trust Act, 1882 as published on India Code (PDF). All sections of the Indian Trust Act, 1882.