sec.26Liability for public trustee’s fees

### sec.26 Liability for public trustee’s fees The owner of property in the custody and control of the public trustee pursuant to a restraining order is liable to the public trustee for all fees and charges that the public trustee is authorised to charge and does charge for collecting and managing the property and for all expenses reasonably incurred by the public trustee in collecting and managing the property, and, if there be more owners than 1, they are so liable jointly and severally. Where an owner who has paid an amount of fees or charges pursuant to subsection (1) is not the convicted person in relation to whom the relevant property is in the custody and control of the public trustee pursuant to a restraining order, that owner may recover the amount as a debt due and owing to the owner by the convicted person by action in a court of competent jurisdiction. s 26 amd 1995 No. 57 s 4 sch 1 (sec.26-ssec.1) The owner of property in the custody and control of the public trustee pursuant to a restraining order is liable to the public trustee for all fees and charges that the public trustee is authorised to charge and does charge for collecting and managing the property and for all expenses reasonably incurred by the public trustee in collecting and managing the property, and, if there be more owners than 1, they are so liable jointly and severally. (sec.26-ssec.2) Where an owner who has paid an amount of fees or charges pursuant to subsection (1) is not the convicted person in relation to whom the relevant property is in the custody and control of the public trustee pursuant to a restraining order, that owner may recover the amount as a debt due and owing to the owner by the convicted person by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.