25Payment of scheduled benefits to infants

25 Payment of scheduled benefits to infants

(1)  *[Section 25 Subsection (1) amended by No. 122 of 1977, s. 11 ]**[Section 25 Subsection (1) amended by No. 20 of 1995, s. 5 and Sched. 3 ]*Subject to subsection (1B) , where a scheduled benefit becomes payable to an infant that benefit shall unless the Supreme Court otherwise orders be paid to The Public Trustee to be held on trust for that infant.

(1A)  *[Section 25 Subsection (1A) inserted by No. 40 of 1974, s. 15 ]*For the purposes of subsection (1) an order of the Supreme Court may be sought by an informal application on affidavit, and any such application may be heard in chambers.

(1B)  *[Section 25 Subsection (1B) inserted by No. 122 of 1977, s. 11 ]*Where a scheduled benefit, being a periodical allowance for the maintenance of an infant, becomes payable under this Act that allowance may be paid to the person who has the lawful custody or control of the infant.

(2)  *[Section 25 Subsection (2) amended by No. 20 of 1995, s. 5 and Sched. 3 ]*Notwithstanding anything in the Public Trustee Act 1930 The Public Trustee may apply the whole or any part of any sum received by it under this section in trust for an infant, or of the income thereof, for the maintenance, education, or advancement, or otherwise for the benefit, of the infant during his minority or may pay the same to some other person to be so applied without seeing to the application or being answerable for the misapplication or non-application thereof.

(3)  *[Section 25 Subsection (3) amended by No. 20 of 1995, s. 5 and Sched. 3 ]*The expenses incurred by The Public Trustee in the carrying out of any trust under this section and any fees or other charges payable to The Public Trustee under the Public Trustee Act 1930 in respect of that trust shall be defrayed by the Board.