Western Australian Current Acts

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 83B

83B .         Foreign administrator may authorise Public Trustee to administer property in this State

        (1)         A foreign administrator may, by instrument in writing —

            (a)         certify that a person, in respect of whom the equivalent of an administration order has been made under the laws of a reciprocating State, has property in this State; and

            (b)         authorise the Public Trustee to administer that property within this State.

        (2)         Where the Public Trustee is authorised by a foreign administrator to administer property in this State the Public Trustee has, in respect of that property, such powers of the foreign administrator as are specified in the instrument so authorising him.

        (3)         The Public Trustee may pay or deliver money or property to the foreign administrator and require the foreign administrator to give a discharge to him in relation to that money or property.

        (4)         In this section —

        foreign administrator means a person who, under the laws of a reciprocating State is vested with the custody or administration of the estate of a person in respect of whom the equivalent of an administration order has been made (however such a person is described under those laws).

        [Section 83B inserted: No. 7 of 1996 s. 26.]