Trustee Companies Act 1968

Where a trustee company is executor or administrator or is by law authorised to administer the estate of any deceased person, or where it is acting as trustee, receiver, committee, guardian, liquidator or official liquidator or in any other capacity, a certificate by the trustee company under the seal of the trustee company—

stating, in the case of a deceased person, the name, residence, and occupation of the deceased person at the time of the person’s death, and the date of the person’s death, and certifying that the trustee company has obtained a grant of probate or letters of administration or is otherwise authorised to administer the estate and stating the date when the probate or letters of administration was granted and the reference number thereof or the manner in which and the time at which the trustee company became authorised to administer; and

in any case where the trustee company is acting as trustee, receiver, committee, guardian, liquidator or official liquidator or in any other capacity—certifying that the trustee company is authorised to act as such trustee, receiver, committee, guardian, liquidator or official liquidator or in such other capacity, and stating the manner in which and the time at which it became so authorised to act;

in the case of a deceased person, of the death of that person, and of the appointment of the trustee company as executor or other administrator, and of its right to administer; and

in any of the other cases mentioned, of the trustee company’s right to act;

Such certificate shall be sufficient for the purpose of bringing any land under the Land Title Act 1994, or of recording the trustee company as owner or proprietor of land under that Act, or of any shares, stock, or property in any company, corporation (other than a company), body, or association, and if any land is subject to the last mentioned Acts, such certificate may be registered against such land as in the case of probate or letters of administration, and shall have the same force and effect.

Such certificate shall be equivalent for registration purposes to the probate, letters of administration with or without the will, election to administer, trust instrument or other order or document of appointment, and without prejudice to the right of the Registrar of Titles to require lodgement of the will, or an office copy thereof issued out of the Court, it shall not be necessary to register the probate, letters of administration with or without the will, election, will, trust instrument or other order or document of appointment.

A statement of the purport of any trust instrument, order, power of attorney, or other document or authority in any assurance, certificate, or instrument by a trustee company under the seal of the trustee company shall be sufficient evidence thereof, and no one shall be concerned to inquire beyond that statement.