TRUSTEE ACT 1925 - SECT 102 Compulsion to account

TRUSTEE ACT 1925 - SECT 102

    (1)     Where a guardian, committee, receiver or other trustee appointed by the Supreme Court has been or is, by order in a particular cause or matter or by rules of court, directed to account from time to time or to file a report or account in the office of the registrar of the court, the court may, in order to enforce compliance with the order or the rules of court, cause the guardian, committee, receiver or other trustee to be summoned before the court to show cause why he or she should not be ordered to account or to file the report or account.

    (2)     If the guardian, committee, receiver or other trustee does not, within the prescribed time or within such further time as is allowed by the Supreme Court, account or file the report or account in the prescribed manner he or she is liable to attachment in accordance with the practice of the court.

    (3)     Under this section, the Supreme Court may cause a guardian, committee, receiver or other trustee to be summoned before the court on its own initiative or on the application of—

        (a)     the parties to the cause or matter or any of those parties; or

        (b)     the registrar of the court on behalf of those parties or any of those parties.