Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 12

Powers of management of estate of mentally incapacitated person

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

The Court may, on the appointment of a committee of the estate of a
mentally incapacitated person, direct by the order of appointment or by any
subsequent order that the person to whom the charge of the estate is committed
shall have such powers for the management thereof as to the Court shall seem
necessary and proper, reference being had to the nature of the property,
whether movable or immovable, of which the estate may consist: (Amended 81 of
1997 ss. 11 & 58) Provided that such powers shall not extend to the sale or
charge by way of mortgage of the estate or any part thereof or to the letting
of any immovable property, unless for a term not exceeding 3 years.