Unclaimed Money Amendment Regulations 1998 (WA)

11 December 1998]	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	6653
TREASURY
TY301*

Unclaimed Money Act 1990

Unclaimed Money Amendment

Regulations 1998

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Unclaimed Money
Amendment Regulations 1998.

2.             Regulation 2B inserted

After regulations 2A of the Unclaimed Money Regulations
1991* the following regulation is inserted —

“

2B.	Exemption to allow voluntary payment of interest earned on patients trust account
(1)	For the purpose of enabling unclaimed money to which this regulation applies to be dealt with under section 13 of the Act, section 7(4)(a) of the Act is to be read as if it had been amended after “satisfied that” by inserting “, to the extent to which they can reasonably be ascertained,”.
(2)	This regulation applies to unclaimed money that was interest credited to the patients trust account prior to 30 June 1994.
(3)	In subregulation (2) —
called the “Hospital Patients’ Private Property
“patients trust account” means the trust account, Western Australia with the Treasury, in which money was held on behalf of patients in various departmental hospitals and nursing homes.

”.

[* Published in Gazette 12 April 1991, pp. 1664-6.

For amendments to 26 October 1998 see 1997 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 276.]

By Command of the Governor,

ROD SPENCER, Clerk of the Executive Council.