Public Curator Acts Amendment Act of 1957 (6 Eliz ll No. 2) (Qld)

306 TRUSTEES AND EXECUTORS. Public Curator Acts Amendment Act . 6 E liz . II. No. 2, 1957. (J b .) He may also compromise any claims or demands made against or upon the convict or his estate, or made by the convict prior to his becoming subject to the operation of this Part of this Act, or by the public curator upon such terms as the public curator thinks fit and upon such evidence as he deems sufficient, or submit such claims or demands to arbitration, and do all acts and things necessary to render any such compromise or arbitration effectual.” An 6 E liz . II. No. 2. T he P ublic C urator A cts A mendment A ct of 1957. Act to Amend “The Public Curator Acts, 1915 to 1956,” in a certain particular. [A ssented to 10 th A pril , 1957.] E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, B by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­ lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— Short title. 1. (1.) This Act may be cited as “ The Public Curator Acts Amendment Act of 1957.” Principal (2.) *“ The Public Curator Acts, 1915 to 1956 ” are Act. in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. Collective (3.) The Principal Act and this Act may be title. collectively cited as “ The Public Curator Acts, 1915 to 1957.” Amendment 2. Sub-section two of section six of the Principal of s. 6 (2). Act is amended by adding thereto the following paragraph, namely :— “ (c) For the purposes of this Act and of any other Act the office of the public curator at Cairns to which a local deputy public curator was appointed on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, shall be deemed to have been a branch of the public curator’s office at all times as and from that date.”. * 6 G. 5 No. 14 and amending Acts.