Section 97 — District Court Act 2016: Trustees, executors, and administrators

97 Trustees, executors, and administrators (1) Any trustee, executor, or administrator may be a party to a proceeding as if he or she were a party in his or her own right, without joining any of the persons beneficially interested in the trust or estate, and is taken to represent those persons in the proceeding. (2) The court may at any stage of the proceeding make an order joining any of the persons beneficially interested as parties to the proceeding, whether as an additional party or in substitution for an existing party. Compare: 1947 No 16 s 49