View source for Duty to file and pass accounts


'''Queensland:'''
Court-ordered accounts: Personal representative is under a duty to exhibit on oath a full inventory of estate, when asked by Court & render an account of the administration of the estate.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/sa1981138/s52.html


'''New South Wales:'''
Mandatory accounts for specified personal representatives only: (a) creditor of estate of deceased; (b) guardian of a minor who is a beneficiary of estate of deceased; (c) executor or administrator of estate substantial part of which passes to charities or public benevolent institutions; (d) any person selected at random by Court who is not a beneficiary; or (e) a person otherwise required to do so by Court.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/paaa1898259/s85.html


'''Northern Territory:'''
Court-ordered accounts: An executor or administrator must, when asked by Court or by the rules, file or file and pass accounts relating to the administration of the estate.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nt/consol_act/aapa259/s89.html


'''South Australia:'''
Mandatory accounts: Mandatory requirement applies only to administrators. Every administrator is required, within six months from date of administration, or within such extended time as Public Trustee may allow, to deliver to the office of Public Trustee a verified statement and account of all the  estate of the deceased and of administration of that estate.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/aapa1919259/s56.html


'''Tasmania:'''
Court-ordered accounts: A personal representative, when 
lawfully required to do so, shall exhibit on oath a true and perfect account of the estate of a deceased person.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/consol_act/aapa1935259/s26.html


'''Victoria:'''
A personal representative must, when lawfully required to do so, exhibit on oath a true and perfect account of the estate of a deceased person.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/aapa1958259/s28.html


'''Western Australia:'''
Mandatory accounts: Executor or administrator is under duty to pass his or her accounts relating to estate of deceased person within such time, and from time to time, as may be prescribed by rules or Court.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/consol_act/aa1903173/s43.html


'''ACT:'''
Court-ordered accounts: Supreme Court may, by order, require the accounts of the executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased person to be examined and passed. The rules may require the accounts of executor or administrator of estate of deceased to be examined & passed.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/aapa1929259/s58.html


'''2009 Draft Uniform Legislation:'''
The model legislation should provide that a personal representative has a duty, whenever required by the court to do so, to file, or to file and pass, his or her accounts of the administration of the estate.