South Australian Numbered Regulations South Australian Numbered Regulations8—Limits on expenditure by administrators (section 39(3) of Act)
(1) For the purposes of section 39(3) of the Act, the administrator of the estate of a protected person cannot, except with the prior approval of the Board, expend in any 1 year of administration more than the following amounts of money out of the estate in respect of the following matters:
(a) for accommodation costs (by way of rent or board and lodging) for the protected person—$19 000;
(b) for premiums paid under the Retirement Villages Act 1987 —$100 000;
(c) for the maintenance of the protected person's spouse or domestic partner—
(i) the sum produced by adding together the amount of average weekly earnings applicable in respect of each week in that year; or
(ii) one half of the protected person's net income (that is to say, taxable income less tax) for the last financial year,
whichever is the lesser;
(d) for the maintenance, education or advancement of the protected person's children and grandchildren—$8 700.
(2) In this regulation—
"average weekly earnings" means the amount published quarterly by the Commonwealth Statistician as the average full time adult ordinary time earnings across private and public sectors.