Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT 1956 (REPEALED) - SECT 4

    (1)     Where the donee under a power of attorney is entitled to execute an assurance or instrument or do any other thing by authority of the donor of the power of attorney, the donee may execute such an assurance or instrument or do such a thing in his or her own name, with his or her own signature, and, if sealing is required, under his or her own seal.

    (2)     An assurance or instrument so executed and any thing so done is as effectual in law—

        (a)     where it has been executed or done under seal—as if it had been executed or done in the name, with the signature and under the seal of the donor of the power of attorney; and

        (b)     where it has not been executed or done under seal—as if it had been executed or done in the name and with the signature of the donor of the power of attorney.

    (3)     This section applies to a power of attorney created by instruments executed either before or after the commencement of this Act.