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Trustee Act 1925
102Compulsion to account
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102 Compulsion to account
(1) Where a guardian, committee, receiver or other trustee appointed by
the Supreme Court has been or is, by order in a particular cause or
matter or by rules of court, directed to account from time to time or
to file a report or account in the office of the registrar of the court, the
court may, in order to enforce compliance with the order or the rules
of court, cause the guardian, committee, receiver or other trustee to
be summoned before the court to show cause why he or she should
not be ordered to account or to file the report or account.
(2) If the guardian, committee, receiver or other trustee does not, within
the prescribed time or within such further time as is allowed by the
Supreme Court, account or file the report or account in the prescribed
manner he or she is liable to attachment in accordance with the
practice of the court.
(3) Under this section, the Supreme Court may cause a guardian,
committee, receiver or other trustee to be summoned before the court
on its own initiative or on the application of—
(a) the parties to the cause or matter or any of those parties; or
(b) the registrar of the court on behalf of those parties or any of those
parties.