Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 17

Committee to execute instruments

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The committee of the estate of the mentally incapacitated  person shall,
in his name and on his behalf, execute all such conveyances and instruments of
transfer, relative to any sale, mortgage or other disposition of his estate as
the Court shall order.

(2) In like manner such committee shall, under the order of the Court,
exercise all powers whatsoever vested in a mentally incapacitated  person
whether the same are vested in him for his own benefit or in the character of
trustee or guardian. (Amended 81 of 1997 s. 58)