Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 1940

4 Proof of instruments creating powers of attorney

(1) A document purporting to be—

(a) an office copy of an instrument deposited in the central office of the Supreme Court under section two hundred and nineteen of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925; or

(b) an extract of an instrument creating a power of attorney registered in Scotland in the books of council and session; or

(c) an office copy of an instrument deposited in the proper office of the Supreme Court under section forty-eight of the Conveyancing Act, 1881, as it applies to Northern Ireland;

shall, in any part of the United Kingdom, without further proof be sufficient evidence of the contents of the instrument and of the fact that it has been so deposited or registered.

(2) Subsection (4) of the said section two hundred and nineteen and subsection (4) of the said section forty-eight are hereby repealed.