Guardianship and Administration Act 2000

This section applies if, in a civil proceeding—

the court sanctions a settlement between another person and an adult or orders an amount to be paid by another person to an adult; and

the court considers the adult is a person with impaired capacity for a matter.

The court may exercise all the powers of the tribunal under chapter 3.

Chapter 3 applies to the court in its exercise of these powers as if the court were the tribunal.

As soon as practicable after a court makes an order under this section, the registrar of the court must give a copy of the order to the tribunal.

Also, after the order is made, the registrar must, if requested by the tribunal, give the tribunal a copy of the part of the record of proceedings that is relevant to making the order.

A fee is not payable to the court for a copy of part of the record of proceedings under subsection (5).

In this section—