law: Indian Trusts Act, 1882 
  41. Power to apply property of minors, etc. for their
  
  maintenance, etc. 
  Where any property is held by a trustee in trust for a minor,
  
  such trustee may, at his discretion, pay to the guardians (if any) of such
  
  minor, or otherwise apply for or towards his maintenance or education or
  
  advancement in life, or the reasonable expenses of his religious worship,
  
  marriage or funeral, the whole or any part of the income to which he may be
  
  entitled in respect of such property; and such trustee shall accumulate all the
  
  residue of such income by way of compound interest, by investing the same and
  
  the resulting income thereof from time to time in any of the securities
  
  mentioned or referred to in section 20, for the benefit of the person who shall
  
  ultimately become entitled to the property from which such accumulations have
  
  arisen:
  PROVIDED  that such trustee may, at any time, if he
  
  thinks fit, apply the whole or any part of such accumulations as if the same were
  
  part of the income arising in the then current year.
  Where the income of the trust-property is insufficient for the
  
  minor's maintenance or education or advancement in life, or the reasonable
  
  expenses of his religious worship, marriage or funeral, the trustee may, with
  
  the permission of a principal civil court of original jurisdiction, but not
  
  otherwise, apply the whole or any part of such property for or towards such
  
  maintenance, education, advancement or expenses.
  Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions
  
  of any local law for the time being in force relating to the persons and
  
  property of minors.