New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NSW TRUSTEE AND GUARDIAN ACT 2009 - SECT 60

60 Arrangements during absence of patient from mental health facility

(cf PE Act, s 37)

(1) While a protected person who is a patient is absent from a mental health facility, the NSW Trustee may, at the discretion of the NSW Trustee--

(a) pay to the patient or to any person on behalf of the patient who gives satisfactory security to the NSW Trustee for the proper management and disposal of it, or as the patient or person directs, the whole or any part of the money standing to the credit of the current account of the patient in the common fund, and

(b) hand over to the patient or person, or as the patient or person directs, all or any chattels or documents forming part of the estate of the patient.

(2) The receipt of a person in accordance with whose direction money is paid or chattels or documents are handed over under this section is an absolute release to the NSW Trustee from liability in respect of any action taken by the NSW Trustee under this section.