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POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT 2003 - SECT 6
Application of Act
6 Application of Act
(1) Act applies to instruments executed on or after commencement This Act
applies to any power of attorney created (or purporting to have been created)
by an instrument executed on or after the commencement of this section.
(2)
Act does not generally apply to existing powers of attorney This Act does not
apply to any power of attorney created (or purporting to have been created) by
an instrument executed before the commencement of this section, except as
provided by subsection (5).
(3) Repealed provisions of Conveyancing Act 1919
continue to apply to existing powers of attorney Subject to subsection (5),
the provisions of Part 16 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Conveyancing Act 1919
(and of any regulations made under those provisions) as in force immediately
before the commencement of this section continue to apply to any power of
attorney created (or purporting to have been created) by an instrument
executed before that commencement despite the repeal of those provisions by
this Act.
(4) Schedule 1 contains copy of repealed provisions of
Conveyancing Act 1919 Schedule 1 contains a copy of the provisions of Part 16
of, and Schedule 7 to, the Conveyancing Act 1919 as in force immediately
before the commencement of this section. Note : The copy of the provisions of
Part 16 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Conveyancing Act 1919 contained in Schedule
1 does not include the definitions for certain terms used in those provisions
that are contained in section 7 of the Conveyancing Act 1919 . The
regulations made under those provisions have also not been included in the
Schedule.
(5) Certain provisions of this Act extend to existing powers of
attorney The provisions of section 25 (Recognition of enduring powers of
attorney made in other States and Territories), Part 5 (Review of powers of
attorney) and Division 3 of Part 6 (Registration of powers of attorney) extend
to any power of attorney created (or purporting to have been created) by an
instrument executed before the commencement of this section.
(6) Certain
references in Part 5 extended to existing powers of attorney For the purposes
of subsection (5): (a) a reference in Part 5 to an enduring power of attorney
is taken to include a reference to a power of attorney that was a protected
power of attorney under Part 16 of the Conveyancing Act 1919 immediately
before its repeal, and
(b) a reference in Part 5 to an
irrevocable power of attorney is taken to include a reference to a power of
attorney to which section 160 of the Conveyancing Act 1919 applied immediately
before its repeal.
(7) Subsection (5) does not affect current proceedings
Nothing in subsection (5) affects the continued operation of the provisions of
the Conveyancing Act 1919 and regulations made under that Act (as continued
in force by subsection (3)) in relation to any proceedings commenced, but not
finally determined, under those provisions before the commencement of this
section.
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