Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ADULT GUARDIANSHIP ACT - SECT 5

    (1)     The Minister is the Public Guardian.

    (2)     The functions of the Public Guardian are:

        (a)     to apply for guardianship orders pursuant to section 8(1);

        (b)     to provide reports to the Court pursuant to section 12(3);

        (c)     to make representations to the Court pursuant to section 13(1);

        (d)     to act as a guardian if appointed pursuant to sections 14 or 19;

        (e)     to apply for a review of a guardianship order or to make representations to the Court at such a review under section 23; and

        (f)     to perform such other functions as are conferred on it by or under this or any other Act.

    (3)     Where the Public Guardian is advised by the Executive Officer that a guardian:

        (a)     is ill or incapacitated and unable to perform the functions of a guardian; or

        (b)     wishes to be relieved of the duties of guardian for the purposes of taking a holiday, attending to business matters or for other sufficient reason during such period or periods in each year as is reasonable in the circumstances,

the Public Guardian shall act as guardian during the illness or incapacity or that period or those periods.

    (4)     The Public Guardian shall act in the place of a guardian who has died.