The Court of Protection (Enduring Powers of Attorney) (Amendment) Rules 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2505

POWERS OF ATTORNEY

MENTAL HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Court of Protection (Enduring Powers of Attorney) (Amendment) Rules 1999

Made

7th September 1999

Laid before Parliament

8th September 1999

Coming into force

1st October 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by sections 106 and 108 of the Mental Health Act 1983(1) and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Rules:

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Court of Protection (Enduring Powers of Attorney) (Amendment) Rules 1999 and shall come into force on 1st October 1999.

2.  Column 2 of Schedule 2 to the Court of Protection (Enduring Powers of Attorney) Rules 1994(2) shall be amended as follows:

(a) the figure “£75” shall be substituted for the figure “£50 ”;

(b) the figure “£25” shall be substituted for the figure “£10 ”.

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Lock

Parliamentary Secretary,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Dated 6th September 1999

We consent

Bob Ainsworth

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 7th September 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules increase the fees payable in respect of applications for registration of an enduring power of attorney and applications to search the register.

(1)

1983 c. 20; section 106 was applied by section 10(1)(d) of the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985 (c. 29).

(2)

S.I. 1994/3047.