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Administration and Probate Act 1929
92Order to public trustee and guardian to collect and
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92 Order to public trustee and guardian to collect and
administer in special circumstances
(1) If it is made to appear to the Supreme Court that there is reasonable
ground to suppose that any person has died, either in or out of the
jurisdiction of the court, intestate, leaving property within the
jurisdiction, the court may order and empower the public trustee and
guardian to collect and administer the estate, both real and personal,
of that person.
(2) The order is valid until revoked, and empowers the public trustee and
guardian to—
(a) collect, manage, and administer the personal estate of the
supposed deceased person; and
(b) enter on and receive the rents and profits and otherwise manage
the real estate; and
(c) pay and discharge the debts and liabilities of that person;
in like way as if he or she were certainly dead and the public trustee
and guardian had obtained an order to collect and administer the
estate of the person under section 88.
(3) The public trustee and guardian must not proceed to any distribution
of the assets without an order of the Supreme Court specially
authorising the public trustee and guardian to make the distribution.