Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

GUARDIANSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY ACT 1991 - SECT 12

    (1)     The ACAT must, on application, register the appointment of a person who is, under a corresponding law—

        (a)     a guardian for another person who lives outside the ACT; or

        (b)     a manager of property of another person who lives outside the ACT.

    (2)     On registration, the person is taken to be a guardian, or manager of the property, of the other person, as the case requires, as if the appointment had been made by the ACAT.

    (3)     The ACAT must not register an appointment unless the instrument of appointment, or a copy of it, has been lodged with the ACAT.

    (4)     In this section:

"corresponding law "means a law of a State or of another Territory, or a law of a prescribed country, that corresponds, or substantially corresponds, to this Act.