Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRUSTEE COMPANIES ACT 1968 - SECT 7

(1) Any person entitled to obtain administration of the estate of any intestate may—

(a) join with a trustee company in an application for the grant of letters of administration of the estate to himself or herself and the trustee company jointly; or

(b) instead of himself or herself applying—authorise a trustee company to apply for and obtain letters of administration of the estate.

(2) Where—

(a) a person joins with a trustee company in an application pursuant to subsection (1); or

(b) a trustee company makes an application that it has, pursuant to that subsection been authorised to make;

the Court may grant letters of administration of the estate in accordance with the application.

(3) This section applies whether the intestate died before or after the commencement of this Act.