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necessary for performing his official duties under this Act, but not otherwise.
(7) Any person who contravenes subsection (6) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
(8) Subsections (5) and (6) are without prejudice to any right of disclosure under this Act or any other written law or rule of law.
(9) The Public Guardian shall be deemed to be a public servant for the purposes of the Penal Code (Cap. 224).
Functions of Public Guardian
31.—(1) The Public Guardian has the following functions:
- (a) establishing and maintaining a register of lasting powers of attorney;
- (b) establishing and maintaining a register of orders appointing deputies;
- (c) supervising deputies appointed by the court;
- (d) directing a member of the Board of Visitors to visit —
- (i) a donee of a lasting power of attorney;
- (ii) a deputy appointed by the court; or
- (iii) the person granting the lasting power of attorney or for whom the deputy is appointed (“P”),
- and to make a report to the Public Guardian on such matters as he may direct;
- (e) receiving security which the court requires a person to give for the discharge of his functions;
- (f) receiving reports from donees of lasting powers of attorney and deputies appointed by the court;
- (g) reporting to the court on such matters relating to proceedings under this Act as the court requires;
- (h) dealing with representations (including complaints) about the way in which a donee of a lasting power of attorney or a deputy appointed by the court is exercising his powers;
