GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 83C

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 83C

83C .         Administrator may authorise relevant official to administer property in reciprocating State

        (1)         Where it appears to the administrator of the estate of a represented person that the represented person has property in a reciprocating State, that administrator may, by instrument in writing directed to the relevant official in that State —

            (a)         certify that he has the control and management of the estate of the represented person;

            (b)         authorise the relevant official in that State to exercise such powers of the administrator in respect of the property of the represented person in the reciprocating State as are specified in the instrument; and

            (c)         require that official to pay or deliver money or property to the administrator.

        (2)         An administrator is not liable for any default on the part of a relevant official in another State to whom an authority is given under subsection (1) and may give a discharge to him for money or property received from him.

        (3)         An administrator may revoke or vary an authority given under subsection (1).

        (4)         In this section —

        relevant official means an officer in a reciprocating State who is, or may be, vested by the laws of that State with the custody or administration of estates of persons in respect of whom the equivalent of administration orders may be made (however such persons are described under those laws).

        [Section 83C inserted: No. 7 of 1996 s. 26.]