Lunacy Act, 1890

Powers exerciseable by committee under order of judge.

120. The Judge may, by order, authorise and direct the committee of the estate of a lunatic to do all or any of the following things:—

(a) Sell any property belonging to the lunatic;

(b) Make exchange or partition of any property belonging to the lunatic or in which he is interested, and give or receive any money for equality of exchange or partition;

(c) Carry on any trade or business of the lunatic;

(d) Grant leases of any property of the lunatic for building, agricultural, or other purposes;

(e) Grant leases of minerals forming part of the lunatic’s property, whether the same have been already worked or not, and either with or without the surface or other land;

(f) Surrender any lease and accept a new lease;

(g) Accept a surrender of any lease and grant a new lease;

(h) Execute any power of leasing vested in a lunatic having a limited estate only in the property over which the power extends;

(i) Perform any contract relating to the property of the lunatic entered into by the lunatic before his lunacy;

(j) Surrender, assign, or otherwise dispose of with or without consideration any onerous property belonging to the lunatic;

(k) Enter into any agreement touching the patronage of augmented cures under the Act one George the First, chapter ten, which the lunatic might have entered into if he had been of sound mind;

(l) Exercise any power or give any consent required for the exercise of any power where the power is vested in the lunatic for his own benefit or the power of consent is in the nature of a beneficial interest in the lunatic.