GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1993 - SECT 45
GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1993 - SECT 45
45—Reporting by Public Trustee
(1) If the Public
Trustee is the administrator of a protected person's estate, the Public
Trustee must, at intervals determined by the Tribunal, furnish the Tribunal
with a statement of the accounts of the estate, showing—
(a) the
assets and liabilities of the estate; and
(b) the
income and expenditure of the estate over a specified period; and
(c) such
other particulars relating to the estate as the Tribunal may require.
(2) The Tribunal may,
by notice in writing addressed to the Public Trustee, disallow any item of
expenditure shown in the statement of accounts if the Tribunal is satisfied
that the Public Trustee, in making the expenditure, had not acted with
reasonable care in the exercise of powers as an administrator.
(3) Where the Tribunal
disallows an item of expenditure pursuant to subsection (2), the Crown is
liable to the protected person for the amount of the expenditure.
(4) The Tribunal must
allow the protected person or, if the protected person does not, in the
opinion of the Tribunal, have the mental capacity to comprehend the contents,
such other person or persons as the Tribunal thinks appropriate, to have
access to and to take a copy of a statement of accounts furnished under this
section.