§ Repeal of time limit for filing powers of attorney under the Trustee Act, 1925, s. 25
§ After Clause 18, insert the following new clause:
§ (".—(1) There shall be no time limit for the filing at the Central Office of the Supreme Court of powers of attorney under section twenty-five of the Trustee Act, 1925, and of the statutory declarations mentioned in subsection (4) of that section, and accordingly, in the said subsection (4), as amended by the Schedule to the Law of Property (Amendment) Act, 1926, the words "within ten days after the execution thereof or where not executed within the United Kingdom within ten days after its receipt in the United Kingdom" are hereby repealed.
§ (2) This section applies to powers of attorney and statutory declarations executed or made before the coming into operation of this section as well as to powers of attorney and statutory declarations executed or made thereafter.")
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, your Lordships will see that this Amendment deals with the time limit for filing powers of attorney. I think that any of your Lordships who has had to deal with this subject in connection with the law will agree that our provisions 1204 will improve its working. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the Amendment.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.