Western Australian Consolidated Acts (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.]