New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsWhere in any proceedings the Court is satisfied that diligent search has been made for any person who, in the character of trustee, is made a defendant thereto to serve the person with a process of the Court and that the person cannot be found, the Court may hear and determine the proceedings and make an order therein against that person in his or her character of a trustee as if he or she had been duly served or had entered an appearance in the proceedings, and had also appeared by his or her Australian legal practitioner at the hearing, but without prejudice to any interest he or she may have in the matters in question in the proceedings in any other character.