Powers of Attorney Act 1959 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT 1959

[Consolidated as at 4 May 2004 on the authority of the Administrator and in accordance with the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980] (Re-issued 18 March to correct a cross reference) ________

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title 2. Interpretation 3. Application of Act 4. Execution under power of attorney 5. Power of attorney to continue in force until death or revocation 6. Irrevocable power of attorney for value 7. Power of attorney irrevocable for fixed period 8. Protection of purchaser under irrevocable power of attorney 9. Registration of powers of attorney 10. Certain powers of attorney deemed to be registered 11. Effect of registration of powers of attorney 12. Searches 13. Accounts 14. Enduring powers of attorney 15. Power of Supreme Court in relation to enduring powers of attorney Schedule 1 Schedule 2

NORFOLK ISLAND

Powers of Attorney Act 1959 _______________________________________________________________________

An Act relating to Powers of Attorney Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Powers of Attorney Act 1959. Interpretation 2. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

"agent" means a person appointed to make decisions for a donor in respect of medical treatment;";

"attorney" includes joint attorneys, joint and several attorneys and a sub-attorney; "bankruptcy" includes an act or proceeding in law having effects or results similar to the effect or result of bankruptcy and, in relation to a body corporate, includes the winding up of the body corporate; "donee", in relation to a power of attorney, means the person who is appointed to be the attorney of another person by virtue of the power of attorney; "donor", in relation to a power of attorney, means the person who, by the power of attorney, appoints another person to be his attorney;