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Mental Capacity Act 2008 s 15A

Mental Capacity Act 2008 s 15A

s 15A Rectification by Public Guardian

15A.—(1) The donor or donee (or if there is more than one donee, any of them) of a non-electronic lasting power of attorney may, at any time after the date an electronic copy of it is treated as being free from any relevant error and as the lasting power of attorney under section 11(12), give a notice to the Public Guardian of any relevant error in the electronic copy. (2) The Public Guardian may, upon receipt of any notice mentioned in subsection (1) or on the Public Guardian’s own initiative, rectify a relevant error in an electronic copy of a non-electronic lasting power of attorney. (3) The Public Guardian must give a written notice of any rectification under subsection (2) to the donor and the donee or (if there is more than one donee) every donee of the non-electronic lasting power of attorney. (4) The Public Guardian must maintain a record of every rectification made under subsection (2). (5) In this section —“electronic copy”, in relation to a non-electronic lasting power of attorney, means an electronic copy of the lasting power of attorney caused to be made and kept in the electronic transaction system by the Public Guardian; “relevant error”, in relation to an electronic copy of a non-electronic lasting power of attorney, means any disparity or inconsistency between the electronic copy and the lasting power of attorney that is registered by the Public Guardian.[Act 16 of 2021 wef 14/11/2022]

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