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.
144. Section 8(2)(e) 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
145. The number of trusts administered remained unchanged at 15.
146. The Registrar General continued to act as Judicial Trustee of one estate on behalf of which $31,500 was held at the close of the year.
Trust Funds
147. Table XXIX sets out the Official Trustee's receipts and pay- ments for the year, and the assets and liabilities of the trusts adminis- tered by him as at 31st March 1972. The total income of the trusts, being interest on investments, fixed deposits and bank accounts, amounted to $21,400, while payments to beneficiaries totalled $829. At the end of the year the total funds administered by the Official Trustee amounted to $390,100, of which $211,600 was held on income account.
Belilios Stars
148. In 1884 Emanuel Raphael Belilios set up a trust fund with the object inter alia of rewarding acts of 'conspicuous valour, devotion or self-denial (whether a life or lives be thereby saved or not) done within the Colony of Hong Kong at a fire or in any quarrel, fight, breach of the peace or otherwise howsoever, or within the Hong Kong, Canton or Macau waters'. The trust deed provided for the award of Belilios Stars for such acts of bravery. These are of two kinds: the bronze eight-pointed Star awarded for bravery at sea, and the five-pointed silver Star for bravery on land. The Official Trustee now administers the trust and makes the awards after submission to the Governor for his approval. A monetary award may also be made either in conjunction with the award of a Star or where no Star is awarded.
149. The number of awards made since the war remained unchanged at 17, 13 bronze and four silver.
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