S.L. 318.1 Art. 20Appointment of administrator.

(1) Where any person, being either a person who is alleged to be entitled to a pension or a claimant of a pension or a pensioner, is by reason of any mental or other incapacity unable to act and his estate is not being administered by any tutor, curator, or other guardian acting or appointed in terms of law, an application to the Director of Social Services may be made in accordance with the provisions of this regulation for the appointment of an administrator (whether he be the applicant or some other person) to exercise on behalf of the person unable to act any right to which that person may be entitled under the Act, and to receive on behalf and for the benefit of that person any sum which may become payable to that person by way or on account of a pension.

(2) On receipt of any such application as aforesaid, if the Director of Social Services is satisfied that the person proposed to be appointed is a fit and proper person to act for the purposes of this regulation on behalf of the person unable to act and is willing so to act the Director of Social Services may appoint the person proposed accordingly: Provided that -

(a) no person being an officer or servant of the Ministry and no person under eighteen years of age shall be capable of being appointed to act under this regulation; and

(b) the Director of Social Services may at any time in his absolute discretion revoke any appointment made under this regulation; and

(c) any person appointed under this regulation, may, on giving the Director of Social Services one month’s notice of his intention so to do, resign his office.