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(1) The Government shall be liable to make good all sums required to discharge any liability which the Public Trustee, if he were a private executor, administrator or trustee, would be personally liable to discharge, except when the liability is one to which neither the Public Trustee nor any of his officers has in any way contributed, and which neither he nor any of his officers could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have averted, and in that case, the Public Trustee shall not, nor shall the Government, be subject to any liability.(2) Every sum required to meet a liability of the Government under this section shall be charged upon and paid out of the Consolidated Fund.
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The Attorney-General may make rules for— (a) defining the duties of the Public Trustee; (b) defining the powers and liabilities of agents, appointing such persons as may be thought advisable to be...
The provisions in the Unclaimed Financial Assets Act (Cap. 494) that require institutions to remit unclaimed assets to the Unclaimed Financial Assets Authority shall not apply to the Public Trustee.
The Public Trustee may apply alternative forms of dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve disputes relating to the administration of estates and trusts.