23Safe custody of documents and chattels

23 Safe custody of documents and chattels (1) The public trustee and guardian may accept for safe custody any trust instrument, a debenture or other security, any document of title to property, any other document and any chattel. (2) The public trustee and guardian’s liability in respect of any thing deposited for safe custody under subsection (1) is— (a) where a charge is made by the public trustee and guardian in connection with the keeping of that thing by the public trustee and guardian—that of a bailee for reward; and (b) where a charge is not made by the public trustee and guardian in connection with the keeping of that thing by the public trustee and guardian—that of a gratuitous bailee.