Hong Kong Ordinances

TRUSTEE ORDINANCE - SECT 64

Rules

The Chief Justice may with the approval of the Legislative Council make rules
for carrying into effect this Part of this Ordinance and especially to
prescribe or provide for-

   (a)  requiring judicial trustees, who are not officials of the court, to
        give security for the due application of any trust property under
        their control;

   (b)  the safety of the trust property, and the custody thereof;

   (c)  the remuneration of judicial trustees and the fees to be taken under
        this Part so as to cover the expenses of the administration of this
        Part, and the payment of such remuneration and fees out of the trust
        property, and, where the judicial trustee is an official of the court,
        the application of the remuneration and fees payable to him;

   (d)  dispensing with formal proof of facts in proper cases;

   (e)  facilitating the discharge by the court of administrative duties under
        this Part without judicial proceedings and otherwise regulating
        procedure under this Part and making it simple and inexpensive;

   (f)  the suspension or removal of any judicial trustee, and the succession
        of another person to the office of any judicial trustee who may cease
        to hold office, and the vesting in such person of any trust property;

   (g)  the classes of trusts in which officials of the court are not to be
        judicial trustees, or are to be so temporarily or conditionally;

   (h)  the procedure to be followed where the judicial trustee is executor or
        administrator;

   (i)  preventing the employment by judicial trustees of other persons at the
        expense of the trust, except in cases of strict necessity;

   (j)  filing and auditing of the accounts of any trust of which a judicial
        trustee has been appointed. [cf. 1896 c.35 s.4 U.K.]