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PUBLIC TRUSTEE ACT 1941 - SECT 37C

37C .         Provision of services

        (1)         The Public Trustee may do any of the following —

            (a)         assist an executor or administrator of a deceased’s estate in exercising or performing any power or duty of the executor or administrator in relation to the administration of the estate;

            (b)         provide estate planning services to a client or a person who is contemplating appointing the Public Trustee to be the executor of the person’s will;

            (c)         provide investment management services in relation to investments, whether or not in a Fund,

                and do such things as are necessary for the provision of that assistance or service.

        (2)         The Public Trustee is entitled to charge and receive fees and remuneration and recover disbursements for the provision of the assistance or services referred to in subsection (1).

        (3)         The Public Trustee may continue to provide the assistance or services referred to in subsection (1) to a person who was a client even though the person is no longer a client.

        (4)         Nothing in this Division shall be read as limiting any power that the Public Trustee otherwise has, whether under this Act or any other written law, a court order or an authorisation in an instrument, to invest property other than by way of investment in a Fund.

        [Section 37C inserted by No. 9 of 2008 s. 23.]



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