TRUSTEE COMPANIES ACT 1984

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART I--PRELIMINARY

• 1 Short title  
• 2 Commencement  
• 4 Definitions  

PART III--POWERS OF TRUSTEE COMPANIES

• 9 Trustee company may act as executor or administrator  
• 10 Authority for trustee company to obtain probate  
• 11 Authority for trustee company to obtain letters of administration  
• 12 Court may act on affidavit of manager etc.  
• 13 Appointment as trustee etc.  
• 14 Trustee company may be appointed trustee, receiver or guardian of estate  
• 15 Trustee company may act under power of attorney  
• 16 Trustee company may be appointed to act as temporary executor, administrator or trustee  
• 17 Executor or administrator may appoint trustee company  
• 18 Application for consent  
• 20A Preparation of wills  

PART V--ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

Division 1--General

• 25 Trustee company to be subject to same duties as individual  
• 26 Trustee company may be removed from office by Supreme Court  

Division 2--Transfer of estate assets and liabilities

• 26AA Definitions  
• 26A Transfer determinations under the Corporations Act  
• 26B Exemption from State tax  

PART VIII--CLAIMS AND DISTRIBUTION

• 43 Refusal of claim  
• 44 Power to make distribution if claimants fail to claim  

PART X--GENERAL

• 54 Testators may appoint their own lawyers  
• 55 Regulations  

PART XI--TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

• 56 Regulations of a savings or transitional nature  
• 57 Court may review rate of commission  
• 58 Order for account and audit of estate  
• 59 Order to restrain disposal of shares  
• 60 Order for winding up of trustee company  
• 61 General transitional provision  
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