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(1)A person acting as a child’s legal representative in relation to the administration of the child’s property—
(a)shall be required to act as a reasonable and prudent person would act on his own behalf; and
(b)subject to any order made under section 11 of this Act, shall be entitled to do anything which the child, if of full age and capacity, could do in relation to that property;
and subject to subsection (2) below, on ceasing to act as legal representative, shall be liable to account to the child for his intromissions with the child’s property.
(2)No liability shall be incurred by virtue of subsection (1) above in respect of funds which have been used in the proper discharge of the person’s responsibility to safeguard and promote the child’s health, development and welfare.
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