Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC TRUSTEE ACT 1985 - SECT 29

    (1)     Where any moneys or chattels are payable or deliverable by the public trustee to a person in a country other than Australia, the public trustee may pay those moneys or deliver those chattels, on behalf of that person—

        (a)     to a consular officer of that country resident in Australia; or

        (b)     if there is no such officer—to an official of that country, wherever the official is resident, who appears to the public trustee to be a suitable person to receive those moneys or chattels.

    (2)     The receipt of a consular officer or official of moneys or chattels paid or delivered to him or her under subsection (1) is a complete and sufficient discharge to the public trustee and the public trustee has no further concern to see to the application of those moneys or chattels.