Clause 4

Section 4 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (5) and substituting the following subsections:“(5) Subject to any conditions or restrictions imposed by the Minister in writing, the Public Trustee may authorise in writing any Deputy Public Trustee or Assistant Public Trustee to exercise all or any of the powers, and perform all or any of the duties, of the Public Trustee conferred by or under any written law, except this power of authorisation.(6) Every Deputy Public Trustee or Assistant Public Trustee who is authorised under subsection (5) to exercise any power or perform any duty of the Public Trustee must, when exercising that power or performing that duty, comply with the directions of the Public Trustee.(7) Any reference in this Act or in any other written law to the Public Trustee includes a reference to a Deputy Public Trustee and an Assistant Public Trustee authorised under subsection (5), unless the context otherwise requires.(8) Subject to the sanction of and any direction given by the Board, the Public Trustee may authorise any person as his agent to carry out any of his functions under section 10 and the rules made for the purpose of that section.”.