Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 3116
POWERS OF ATTORNEY, ENGLAND AND WALES
MENTAL HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Enduring Powers of Attorney (Prescribed Form) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Made
8th November 2005
Laid before Parliament
10th November 2005
Coming into force
5th December 2005
The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985( 1 ):
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Enduring Powers of Attorney (Prescribed Form) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 5th December 2005.
(2) In these Regulations, a reference to the Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to the Enduring Powers of Attorney (Prescribed Form) Regulations 1990( 2 ).
Amendments to the Enduring Power of Attorney (Prescribed Form) Regulations 1990
2. For the Schedule substitute the Schedule to these Regulations.
Transitional provision
3. A power executed in the form prescribed in the Schedule as though it had not been substituted by these Regulations and executed by the donor before 1st April 2007 shall be capable (whether or not seals are affixed to it) of being a valid enduring power of attorney.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Cathy Ashton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
8th November 2005
Regulation 2
SCHEDULE
S.1. 1990/1376 .