Hong Kong Ordinances

MENTAL HEALTH ORDINANCE - SECT 26B

Variation of powers of committee of the estate or the replacement of committee of the estate

(1) The Court may, on an application under subsection (2), make an order-

        (a)	to vary any powers of a committee of the estate ("relevant 
committee") appointed under section 11 or this section;

   (b)  to replace the relevant committee by another committee of the  estate,
        and where the relevant committee is not the Official Solicitor he may
        be so appointed.

(2) An application under this section may be made by any relative of the
person alleged to be a mentally incapacitated person, but if no such
application is made by such relative, then by-

   (a)  the Director of Social Welfare;

   (b)  the Official Solicitor;

   (c)  any guardian of that person appointed under Part IVB; or

   (d)  the relevant committee. (Added 81 of 1997 s. 19)