Ontario. Office of the Public Guardian & Trustee

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Office of the Public Guardian & Trustee

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Office of the Public Guardian & Trustee

    Other form(s) of name

      Identifiers for corporate bodies

      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1996-

      History

      The OPGT is part of the Social Justice Services Division (SJSD), which was formed after the Civil Law Division was abolished in 1997 and its functions were divided between the SJSD and the Public Law and Policy Division.

      Places

      Legal status

      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT) plays a vital role in representing and protecting the personal and property interests of people deemed incapable of handling their affairs, protecting the public's interest in charities, searching for heirs, investing perpetual care funds, and dealing with dissolved corporations.

      The OPGT operates out of six offices located throughout the province to provide a variety of services, including: managing the financial and/or personal affairs of mentally incapable individuals pursuant to the Substitute Decisions Act where no one else is able to do so; making medical treatment decisions for mentally incapable people where no one else is able to do so; administering the estates of intestate persons who have no heirs in Ontario; dealing with property owned by dissolved Ontario corporations; and, investigating allegations of serious harm against vulnerable adults. The Office also has responsibility as the Accountant of the Superior Court of Justice, and is responsible for retaining all money, mortgages and securities paid into or lodged with the Court on behalf of minors and litigants, as well as protecting the public interest in charitable property.

      The Public Guardian and Trustee is appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and must be a lawyer who has been a member of the Ontario bar for at least ten years.

      Address

      Substitute Decisions Act

      Health Care Consent Act

      Mental Health Act

      Rules of Civil Procedure

      Internal structures/genealogy

      General context

      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General (1972-)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA72

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of the Attorney General controls Ontario. Office of the Public Guardian & Trustee

      Dates of relationship

      1996-

      Description of relationship

      Related entity

      Ontario. Office of the Public Trustee (1919-1996)

      Identifier of related entity

      CA2117

      Category of relationship

      temporal

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Office of the Public Trustee is the predecessor of Ontario. Office of the Public Guardian & Trustee

      Dates of relationship

      Description of relationship

      Access points area

      Subject access points

      Place access points

      Epithet

      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA2118

      Institution identifier

      Rules and/or conventions used

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

      Language(s)

        Script(s)

          Sources

          MAG-14 schedules and ADF

          http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/family/pgt, November 22, 2007

          Ontario Government Telephone Directories, 1975-2006

          KWIK Index, 1993-2000

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Coulter