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MOTOR ACCIDENTS (LIABILITIES AND COMPENSATION) ACT 1973 - SECT 25 Payment of scheduled benefits to infants

MOTOR ACCIDENTS (LIABILITIES AND COMPENSATION) ACT 1973 - SECT 25

Payment of scheduled benefits to infants

(1)  Subject to subsection (1B) , where a scheduled benefit becomes payable to an infant that benefit shall unless the Supreme Court otherwise orders be paid to The Public Trustee to be held on trust for that infant.
(1A)  For the purposes of subsection (1) an order of the Supreme Court may be sought by an informal application on affidavit, and any such application may be heard in chambers.
(1B)  Where a scheduled benefit, being a periodical allowance for the maintenance of an infant, becomes payable under this Act that allowance may be paid to the person who has the lawful custody or control of the infant.
(2)  Notwithstanding anything in the Public Trustee Act 1930 The Public Trustee may apply the whole or any part of any sum received by it under this section in trust for an infant, or of the income thereof, for the maintenance, education, or advancement, or otherwise for the benefit, of the infant during his minority or may pay the same to some other person to be so applied without seeing to the application or being answerable for the misapplication or non-application thereof.
(3)  The expenses incurred by The Public Trustee in the carrying out of any trust under this section and any fees or other charges payable to The Public Trustee under the Public Trustee Act 1930 in respect of that trust shall be defrayed by the Board.