SPORTING INJURIES INSURANCE ACT 1978 - SECT 28
Administration of amounts payable to minors
SPORTING INJURIES INSURANCE ACT 1978 - SECT 28
Administration of amounts payable to minors
28 Administration of amounts payable to minors
(1) Any amount that is to be paid under section 25 by the committee to an
applicant under the age of 18 years shall be paid to the NSW Trustee and
Guardian to be held by the NSW Trustee and Guardian in trust for the applicant
until the applicant attains the age of 18 years.
(2) Where the NSW Trustee
and Guardian has been paid an amount pursuant to subsection (1) and the
applicant who would be entitled to the amount, or the residue thereof, when he
or she attains the age of 18 years, dies before he or she attains that age,
the NSW Trustee and Guardian shall pay the amount, or the residue thereof, and
any accretions thereto, to:
(a) a parent of the deceased applicant,
(b) a
person who, in the opinion of the NSW Trustee and Guardian, had a relationship
to the deceased applicant, immediately before the death, substantially similar
to that of a parent, or
(c) the legal personal representative of the deceased
applicant,
