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Public Trustee Rules

Cap. 199s01 · Revised Edition 2020 · 40 sections

• s. 1Short title
• s. 2Interpretation
• s. 3Offices and officers
• s. 4Security
• s. 5Duties of Public Trustee
• s. 6Powers of Public Trustee
• s. 7Discretionary powers of Public Trustee
• s. 8Appointment of Public Trustee as trustee
• s. 9Application for consent to act
• s. 10Matters Public Trustee to take into consideration
• s. 11Place of administration of trust
• s. 12Application for administration of estate
• s. 13Acceptance or refusal of application
• s. 14Powers of Public Trustee
• s. 15Opinion of Court
• s. 16Registers, etc., to be kept
• s. 17Investments
• s. 18Securities and documents
• s. 19Separate accounts
• s. 20Payments of capital
• s. 21Authentication of seal
• s. 22Mode of payment
• s. 23Income
• s. 24Payment to other trustee
• s. 25Professional advice
• s. 26Statutory declaration
• s. 27Missing or unknown beneficiary
• s. 28Particulars of trust or estate
• s. 29Corporation as custodian trustee
• s. 30Application for investigation of accounts
• s. 31Power to require security
• s. 32Power to limit investigation
• s. 33Default of agreement
• s. 34Expenses
• s. 35Copies of report and documents
• s. 36Power to hear parties
• s. 37Accounts of Public Trustee
• s. 38Service
• s. 39Power to delegate
• s. 40Deputy not to act as Attorney-at-Law