Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Trustee Companies Act 1984 - SECT 28

Supreme Court may order audit of estate

28. Supreme Court may order audit of estate



(1) It shall be lawful for the Supreme Court on application under section 27
to order, in addition to or in substitution for any account to be rendered by
the trustee company, that a person to be named in the order shall examine the
books and accounts of the trustee company in reference to the estate as to
which the order is made, and in that case the trustee company shall deliver to
the person named in the order a list of all books kept by it, and shall
produce to that person at all reasonable times when required the books and all
accounts, vouchers, papers and other documents of the trustee company, and
shall afford to that person all necessary information and all other necessary
facilities for enabling that person to make the examination.

(2) The Supreme Court shall have the same power as to the costs of such
examination as is given by section 27 in reference to costs of or occasioned
by an application under that section.