Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts Whenever any amount
has been paid by the State under section 201 on account of any deceased person
such amount may be recovered by the State from the estate of such person by
action against his personal representatives in the name of the Registrar; and
whenever such amount has been paid on account of a person who shall have been
adjudged bankrupt the amount so paid shall be considered to be a debt due from
the estate of such bankrupt and a certificate signed by the Treasurer
certifying the fact of such payment and delivered to the trustee shall be
sufficient proof of such debt; and whenever any amount has been paid by the
State under section 201 on account of any person who may have absconded or who
cannot be found within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and may have left
any real or personal estate within Western Australia it shall be lawful for
the said court or a judge thereof upon the application of the Registrar and
upon the production of a certificate signed by the Treasurer certifying that
the amount has been paid in satisfaction of a judgment against the State with
the Registrar as nominal defendant to allow the State to have judgment against
such person forthwith for the amount so paid together with the costs of the
application and such judgment shall be final and signed in like manner as a
final judgment by confession or default in an adverse suit and execution may
issue immediately; and if such person shall not have left real or personal
estate within Western Australia sufficient to satisfy the amount for which
execution may have been issued as aforesaid the State may, in the name of the
Registrar, recover such amount or the unrecovered balance thereof by action
against such person at any time thereafter if he shall be found within the
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
[Section 195 amended: No. 17 of 1950 s. 54; No. 81
of 1996 s. 117.]