Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 13

Powers of Registrar

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The Registrar may, without an order of reference, receive any proposal and
conduct any inquiry respecting the management of the estate of a
mentally incapacitated person if such proposal relates to any matter which the
committee of the estate has not been empowered by an order under section 12 to
dispose of. (Amended 81 of 1997 s. 58)

(2) The Registrar may likewise, without reference, receive and inquire into
any proposal relating to the sale or charge by way of mortgage of the estate
or of any part thereof or to the letting of any immovable property for a term
exceeding 3 years.

(3) The Registrar shall report to the Court on the proposal, and the Court
shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, make such order upon the
report and respecting the costs as shall under the circumstances seem just.