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Public Trustee Act 1978
sec.79Public trustee may be authorised to manage in Queensland
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### sec.79 Public trustee may be authorised to manage in Queensland
Where the proper officer of a reciprocating state by instrument under the proper officer’s hand directed to the public trustee certifies, by whatever verbal formula, that the proper officer is, as such proper officer, authorised to manage the estate or affairs of a person named in the instrument and requests the public trustee to manage in Queensland the estate or affairs of that person, the public trustee shall be authorised to manage in Queensland the estate of that person.
The public trustee may, without seeing to the application thereof and without liability there for, from time to time pay, transfer or deliver to such proper officer moneys or property of that person.
The authority of the public trustee to manage the estate of that person (except as to taking action pursuant to subsection (2) ) shall cease—
if it comes to the public trustee’s notice that that person has died; or
if such proper officer notifies the public trustee in writing that the proper officer’s authority to manage the affairs of that person has ceased; or
if the court so orders on the application of that person or of any person who appears to the court to have a proper interest in making the application.
(sec.79-ssec.1) Where the proper officer of a reciprocating state by instrument under the proper officer’s hand directed to the public trustee certifies, by whatever verbal formula, that the proper officer is, as such proper officer, authorised to manage the estate or affairs of a person named in the instrument and requests the public trustee to manage in Queensland the estate or affairs of that person, the public trustee shall be authorised to manage in Queensland the estate of that person.
(sec.79-ssec.2) The public trustee may, without seeing to the application thereof and without liability there for, from time to time pay, transfer or deliver to such proper officer moneys or property of that person.
(sec.79-ssec.3) The authority of the public trustee to manage the estate of that person (except as to taking action pursuant to subsection (2) ) shall cease— if it comes to the public trustee’s notice that that person has died; or if such proper officer notifies the public trustee in writing that the proper officer’s authority to manage the affairs of that person has ceased; or if the court so orders on the application of that person or of any person who appears to the court to have a proper interest in making the application.
- (a) if it comes to the public trustee’s notice that that person has died; or
- (b) if such proper officer notifies the public trustee in writing that the proper officer’s authority to manage the affairs of that person has ceased; or
- (c) if the court so orders on the application of that person or of any person who appears to the court to have a proper interest in making the application.