Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this Act, when an order to administer is made the public trustee shall have the same powers over the property of the deceased as the public trustee would have had if probate or letters of administration of such property had been granted to the public trustee in the like case and the same consequences shall follow in other respects, and any reference in any other Act or law to probate or letters of administration or a grant of administration or representation or other like expression shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed to include a reference to an order to administer.
(2) Upon obtaining an order to administer, the title of the public trustee to any property in the estate and to the rents and profits thereof, shall relate back to and be deemed to have arisen upon the death of the owner of such property as if there had been no interval of time between such death and appointment.
(3) However, any acts lawfully done by a prior administrator shall be as valid and effectual as if they had been done by the public trustee, and any rights exercisable by such prior administrator shall vest in and be exercisable by the public trustee.