GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 64
GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 64
64 . Making of administration order
(1) Subject to
section 4, where the State Administrative Tribunal is satisfied that a person
in respect of whom an application for an administration order is made under
section 40 —
(a) is
unable, by reason of a mental disability, to make reasonable judgments in
respect of matters relating to all or any part of his estate; and
(b) is
in need of an administrator of his estate,
the Tribunal may by
order declare the person to be in need of an administrator of his estate, and
if it does so shall appoint —
(c) a
person to be the administrator; or
(d)
persons to be joint administrators,
as the case may
require, of the estate of the person in respect of whom the application is
made.
(2) Where under
subsection (1) the State Administrative Tribunal declares that a person is in
need of an administrator of his estate, it shall declare the matter or matters
set out in paragraph (a) of that subsection of which it is satisfied.
(3) An appointment
under subsection (1) —
(a) may
be made subject to such conditions and restrictions as the State
Administrative Tribunal thinks fit;
(b) may,
subject to section 51 of the Public Trustee Act 1941 , include requirements
as to the giving of security to the executive officer and the manner in which
it is to be given.
[Section 64 amended: No. 16 of 1992 s. 18; No. 57
of 1997 s. 67; No 70 of 2000 s. 9; No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 11; No. 55 of
2004 s. 466.]