Public Trustee Act 1978

Where the public trustee is administering the estate in Queensland of a deceased person who at the time of the person’s death appears to the public trustee to have been domiciled in some other place and whose estate in that place is being administered by some person (the administrator in the domicile), the public trustee may pay over, transfer or deliver to the administrator in the domicile the balance of the estate in Queensland, after any proper distribution thereout, without being under any obligation to see to the application of such balance and without incurring any liability in regard to such payment, transfer or delivery, and may certify to the correctness of any account supplied to that administrator in the domicile accordingly.

Where the public trustee is administering the estate of a deceased person who appears to the public trustee to have died domiciled in Queensland leaving assets in some other place, and under the authority of the law of that place some person (the ancillary administrator) is administering such assets therein, the public trustee may receive from that ancillary administrator the balance of the proceeds of such assets, and such balance, when so received, shall be dealt with according to the law of Queensland, and shall form part of the estate of the deceased person, and the public trustee may act on the faith of any account supplied to the public trustee by the ancillary administrator and shall not be obliged to inquire into the administration of the assets of the deceased in such other place.

The public trustee may appoint any person (including the public trustee or curator or other like official for another place) to act as the public trustee’s agent or attorney for the purpose of obtaining or confirming authority to act in relation to an estate in any place outside the State, and for the purpose of selling, converting, collecting, getting in, and executing and perfecting assurances of, or managing, or cultivating, or otherwise administering any property real or personal, movable or immovable, forming part of the estate in any place outside the State, or executing or exercising any discretion or trust or power vested in the public trustee in relation to any such property, with such ancillary powers, and with and subject to such provisions and restrictions, as the public trustee may think fit, including a power to appoint substitutes, and shall not, by reason only of the public trustee having made any such appointment, be responsible for any loss arising thereby.