"Point in Time" Act Content

PATIENTS PROPERTY ACT
[RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 349

Section10(1)(d) BEFORE amended by 2001-2-21 effective March 29, 2001 (Royal Assent).

(d) the committee must pass the committee's accounts before the Public Guardian and Trustee within 30 days after the second anniversary of the date of the appointment and after that within 30 days after the anniversary of the date of the appointment in every second year;

Section 10(1)(a), (b) and (d) BEFORE amended by 2003-37-38 effective May 29, 2003 (Royal Assent).

(a) the committee must within 6 months of the appointment deliver to the Public Guardian and Trustee a true inventory of the whole estate of the patient, stating the estimated revenue of it, and setting out the debts, credits and effects of the patient to the extent they have come to the knowledge of the committee;

(b) if property belonging to the patient is discovered after the delivery of an inventory under paragraph (a), the committee must deliver to the Public Guardian and Trustee a true account of the property as it is discovered;

(d) the committee must pass the committee’s accounts before the Public Guardian and Trustee at the times directed by the Public Guardian and Trustee;

Section 16 BEFORE amended by 2003-37-39 effective May 29, 2003 (Royal Assent).

Special direction limiting powers of committee

16 (1) On the appointment of a committee, the court may, by the same order, direct that the committee does not have the rights, privileges or powers specified in the order.

(2) If the court has specified that the committee does not have certain rights, privileges or powers,

(a) the registrar of the court must send a copy of the order to the Public Guardian and Trustee, and

(b) the Public Guardian and Trustee has the rights, powers and privileges specified, and to that extent is the co-committee of the patient.

Section 24 BEFORE amended by 2003-37-40 effective May 29, 2003 (Royal Assent).

24 On the death of a patient and until letters probate of the will or letters of administration of the estate of the patient are granted and notice in writing of the grant is served on the committee, the committee of the patient

(a) continues to have the rights, powers, duties and privileges that the committee would have had if the patient had not died, and

(b) has the powers of an executor of the last will and testament of or the administrator of the estate of the patient.

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