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TRUSTEE COMPANIES ACT 1953 - SECT 36 Power of Court to make order for account on application of Public Trustee

TRUSTEE COMPANIES ACT 1953 - SECT 36

Power of Court to make order for account on application of Public Trustee

(1)  If the Public Trustee is unable, on application to a trustee company, to obtain a sufficient account of the property and assets of an estate that is, or in its opinion ought to have been, included in a statement under section 34 , the Public Trustee may, after notice to the company, apply to the Court for an account.
(2)  If, on the hearing of an application under this section, the Court is of the opinion that no sufficient account has been rendered by the trustee company, the Court may order an account to be rendered within such time as it may fix in that behalf, or if the Court is of the opinion that a sufficient case to require the company to furnish an account has not been made out it may dismiss the application.
(3)  On the hearing of an application under this section the Court may make such order as to costs as it thinks fit.