Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The public trustee may delegate the public trustee's powers under this Act to any person.
(2) A power may be subdelegated if the delegation expressly allows the subdelegation of the power.
(3) Without limiting subsections (1) and (2), the following powers may be delegated (and subdelegated)--
(a) making an affidavit or statutory declaration required or permitted to be made by the public trustee, signing a document to be filed in a court, verifying an account or personally attending a court instead of the public trustee;
(b) executing a transfer of property for the public trustee;
(c) giving or signing a notice, consent, certificate, instrument or other document the public trustee is required or permitted to give or sign.
(4) If, when exercising a power under a delegation or subdelegation under this section, the delegatee signs a document, the delegatee may add after the delegatee's signature the following statement or a statement to the following effect--
'Signed as delegate for the public trustee under section 11A of the Public Trustee Act 1978'.
(5) A document purporting to be a document mentioned in subsection (4) is taken to have been properly signed by a delegatee of the public trustee under a delegation made under this section unless the contrary is proved.
(6) Subsections (4) and (5) do not limit section 27A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954.