Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1968-1969 — Page 48

Fees

132. The Official Receiver's fees and commission charged during the year totalled $100,370 as follows:

Bankruptcy

Companies Liquidation

...

...

$ 46,257

54,113

$100,370

This was some $52,000 less than in the previous year. The fees collected in a year are not a reliable index to the amount of work during that year, for by the nature of things they include fees in respect of work done in previous years and do not include many fees payable in respect of current cases.

PART VII

OFFICIAL TRUSTEE, JUDICIAL TRUSTEE AND

OFFICIAL SOLICITOR IN LUNACY

Explanatory

133. The Official Trustee's functions are laid down in Part VII of the Trustee Ordinance and the Administration of Trust Fund Rules made under Section 76 of that Ordinance. The Judicial Trustee Rules, made under Section 64 of the Trustee Ordinance, provide that where an official of the Court is appointed Judicial Trustee, the Registrar General shall be so appointed unless for special reasons the Court directs that some other official of the Court be appointed.

134. Section 8(2)(c) of the Supreme Court Ordinance provides that the functions and powers of the Official Solicitor in Lunacy shall be exercised by the Registrar General.

Administration of Trusts

135. The number of trusts administered remained unchanged at sixteen.

136. The Registrar General continued to act as Judicial Trustee of one estate on behalf of which $3,531 was held at the close of the year.

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