sec.11ADelegation by public trustee

### sec.11A Delegation by public trustee The public trustee may delegate the public trustee’s powers under this Act to any person. A power may be subdelegated if the delegation expressly allows the subdelegation of the power. Without limiting subsections (1) and (2) , the following powers may be delegated (and subdelegated)— making an affidavit or statutory declaration required or permitted to be made by the public trustee, signing a document to be filed in a court, verifying an account or personally attending a court instead of the public trustee; executing a transfer of property for the public trustee; giving or signing a notice, consent, certificate, instrument or other document the public trustee is required or permitted to give or sign. If, when exercising a power under a delegation or subdelegation under this section, the delegatee signs a document, the delegatee may add after the delegatee’s signature the following statement or a statement to the following effect— ‘Signed as delegate for the public trustee under section 11A of the Public Trustee Act 1978 ’. A document purporting to be a document mentioned in subsection (4) is taken to have been properly signed by a delegatee of the public trustee under a delegation made under this section unless the contrary is proved. Subsections (4) and (5) do not limit section 27A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 . s 11A ins 1994 No. 24 s 3 (1) sch (sec.11A-ssec.1) The public trustee may delegate the public trustee’s powers under this Act to any person. (sec.11A-ssec.2) A power may be subdelegated if the delegation expressly allows the subdelegation of the power. (sec.11A-ssec.3) Without limiting subsections (1) and (2) , the following powers may be delegated (and subdelegated)— making an affidavit or statutory declaration required or permitted to be made by the public trustee, signing a document to be filed in a court, verifying an account or personally attending a court instead of the public trustee; executing a transfer of property for the public trustee; giving or signing a notice, consent, certificate, instrument or other document the public trustee is required or permitted to give or sign. (sec.11A-ssec.4) If, when exercising a power under a delegation or subdelegation under this section, the delegatee signs a document, the delegatee may add after the delegatee’s signature the following statement or a statement to the following effect— ‘Signed as delegate for the public trustee under section 11A of the Public Trustee Act 1978 ’. (sec.11A-ssec.5) A document purporting to be a document mentioned in subsection (4) is taken to have been properly signed by a delegatee of the public trustee under a delegation made under this section unless the contrary is proved. (sec.11A-ssec.6) Subsections (4) and (5) do not limit section 27A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 . - (a) making an affidavit or statutory declaration required or permitted to be made by the public trustee, signing a document to be filed in a court, verifying an account or personally attending a court instead of the public trustee; - (b) executing a transfer of property for the public trustee; - (c) giving or signing a notice, consent, certificate, instrument or other document the public trustee is required or permitted to give or sign.