South Australian Consolidated Acts

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 Board, furnish the Board 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 Board may require.

        (2)         The Board may, by notice in writing addressed to the Public Trustee, disallow any item of expenditure shown in the statement of accounts if the Board 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 Board 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 Board must allow the protected person or, if the protected person does not, in the opinion of the Board, have the mental capacity to comprehend the contents, such other person or persons as the Board thinks appropriate, to have access to and to take a copy of a statement of accounts furnished under this section.