Public Trustee Act 1978

The public trustee may delegate the public trustee’s powers under this Act to any person.

A power may be subdelegated if the delegation expressly allows the subdelegation of the power.

Without limiting subsections (1) and (2), the following powers may be delegated (and subdelegated)—

making an affidavit or statutory declaration required or permitted to be made by the public trustee, signing a document to be filed in a court, verifying an account or personally attending a court instead of the public trustee;

executing a transfer of property for the public trustee;

giving or signing a notice, consent, certificate, instrument or other document the public trustee is required or permitted to give or sign.

If, when exercising a power under a delegation or subdelegation under this section, the delegatee signs a document, the delegatee may add after the delegatee’s signature the following statement or a statement to the following effect—‘Signed as delegate for the public trustee under section 11A of the Public Trustee Act 1978’.

A document purporting to be a document mentioned in subsection (4) is taken to have been properly signed by a delegatee of the public trustee under a delegation made under this section unless the contrary is proved.

Subsections (4) and (5) do not limit section 27A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1954.