Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 11

Appointment of committees

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) If the Court is satisfied that the person who is alleged to be
mentally incapacitated is incapable, by reason of mental incapacity, of
managing and administering his property and affairs, the Court may, if it
shall think fit, appoint a committee of the estate, and for this purpose, the
Official Solicitor may be so appointed of such person and may make such order,
if any, as to the remuneration of the committee out of such person's estate,
and as to the giving of security by the committee, as to the Court may seem
fit. (Amended 81 of 1997 s. 10)

(2) A committee of the estate appointed under this Part shall do all such
things in relation to the property and affairs of the mentally 
incapacitated person as the Court, in the exercise of the powers conferred on
the Court under sections 10A and 10B, orders or directs the committee 
of the estate to do and may do any such thing in relation to the property and
affairs of the mentally incapacitated person as the Court, in the exercise of
those powers, authorizes the committee of the estate to do. (Replaced 81 of
1997 s. 10)

(3) The provisions of Order 30, rules 5, 6 and 7 of the Rules of the High
Court ( Cap 4 sub. leg.) which apply to receivers shall apply to a
committee of the estate as if the references to "receiver" in those rules
were substituted by references to "committee of the estate". (Added 81 of 1997
s. 10. Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)