Public Trustee Act 1978

Where an incapacitated person is registered as proprietor of or is entitled to any estate or interest in land, a registering authority shall record on the register relating to that land, at the request of the public trustee, a memorial that the public trustee is authorised to manage the estate of that incapacitated person.

The public trustee may, in the name and on behalf of an incapacitated person, execute and do all such assurances and things as the public trustee may consider necessary or desirable for effectuating any of the powers conferred upon the public trustee by this Act or by any order of the court and all assurances and things so executed or done shall have the same force and effect as if executed or done by the incapacitated person had the incapacitated person not been under a legal disability and no registration or recording of the authority of the public trustee so to do shall be necessary.

The powers of the public trustee shall extend to property or any rights of a property nature of the incapacitated person outside the State and, in particular and without prejudice to the generality of those powers, the public trustee is hereby authorised and empowered to receive and give a valid discharge for any legacy or other interest in an estate in which the incapacitated person is interested in any place outside the State.