Public Trustee and Guardian Act 1985
14Public trustee and guardian may act jointly with another
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14 Public trustee and guardian may act jointly with another person (1) Subject to subsection (3), the public trustee and guardian may be appointed and act jointly with another person in any of the capacities referred to in section 13.
(2) Subject to any other law in force in the ACT, where the public trustee and guardian is appointed and acts jointly with another person— (a) the public trustee and guardian and that other person jointly have and may exercise any function that the public trustee and guardian, if acting alone, would have or be entitled to exercise; and (b) all moneys under the control of the public trustee and guardian and that other person jointly must be dealt with in the same manner as money under the control of the public trustee and guardian alone; and (c) the receipt in writing of the public trustee and guardian alone for any moneys, securities or other personal property or effects required to be paid, transferred or delivered to the public trustee and guardian and that other person jointly— (i) shall be a sufficient discharge; and (ii) shall fully and effectually exonerate the person by whom that property or those effects was or were paid, transferred or delivered from seeing to the application, or being answerable for any loss or misapplication, of that property or those effects. (3) The public trustee and guardian may not be appointed or act jointly with another person as manager of property under part 5.