UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 31.15 Evidence of consent to act as tutor, trustee, receiver or other office

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 31.15

31.15 Evidence of consent to act as tutor, trustee, receiver or other office

(cf SCR Part 36, rule 11)

(1) A document--

(a) purporting to contain a person's written consent to act as tutor of a person under legal incapacity, to act as trustee, to act as receiver or to act in any other office on appointment by the court, and

(b) purporting to have been duly executed and authenticated,

is evidence of the consent.

(2) A document is duly executed and authenticated for the purposes of subrule (1)--

(a) in the case of a consenting person who is a natural person, if the document is signed by the consenting person and the signature is verified by some other person, or

(b) in the case of a consenting person that is a corporation, if the seal of the corporation is affixed to the document in accordance with the law regulating the use of the seal.