Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC TRUSTEE ACT 1941 - SECT 12A

12A .         Public Trustee’s powers on appointment as agent of executor, administrator etc.

                In addition to the Public Trustee’s powers under section 12, if —

            (a)         a person who is an executor or administrator appoints the Public Trustee as the person’s agent to act as executor or administrator in the place of the person;

            (b)         a person who may be entitled to apply for a grant of probate appoints the Public Trustee as the person’s agent to apply for a grant of probate;

            (c)         a person who may be entitled to obtain administration (with the will of a testator annexed) of the testator’s estate appoints the Public Trustee as the person’s agent to apply for an order to administer the estate; or

            (d)         a person who is referred to in section 25 of the Administration Act 1903 as a person who may be granted administration of an estate of a person dying intestate appoints the Public Trustee as the person’s agent to apply for an order to administer the estate,

                the Public Trustee, if so appointed by power of attorney or other instrument of appointment, may act within the scope of the authority conferred on the Public Trustee as effectually as the person could have acted and may exercise all discretionary and other powers delegated by the principal as fully as the principal could have exercised them.

        [Section 12A inserted by No. 9 of 2008 s. 14.]