Queensland Numbered Acts

COURT AND CIVIL LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2017 - SECT 253

253 Insertion of new pt 13

After part 12—
insert—

Part 13 - Validation provision for Court and Civil Legislation Amendment Act 2017

123 Validation of execution of power of attorney for s 56

(1) This section applies if—

(a) before the commencement, a trustee purported to delegate, by power of attorney, the execution or exercise of a matter under previous section 56; and

(b) the power of attorney was made in the approved form under the Powers of Attorney Act 1998 , section 11.

(2) The power of attorney is taken to be, and to have always been, as valid as if it had been executed as a deed under previous section 56.

(3) In this section—

"previous section 56" means section 56 as in force from time to time before the commencement.