The Enduring Powers of Attorney (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendment) Order 1987

Made: 15th September 1987

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(b)

At the Court at Balmoral, the 15th day of September 1987 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 38(2) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973[^f00001] as extended by paragraph 1(7) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974[^f00002], and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:—

Title, commencement and extent

1

This Order—

• (a) may be cited as the Enduring Powers of Attorney (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendment) Order 1987;

• (b) shall come into force on the day appointed under Article 1(2) of the Enduring Powers of Attorney (Northern Ireland) Order 1987[^f00003] for the coming into operation of that Order, and

• (c) extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.

Amendment of Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985

2

In section 7(3) of the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985[^f00004], after the words “under this Act” there shall be inserted the words “or under the Enduring Powers of Attorney (Northern Ireland) Order 1987”.

Signed

G. I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 7(3) of the Enduring Powers of Attorney Act 1985 provides that an office copy of an instrument registered under that Act is to be evidence in any part of the United Kingdom of the contents of the instrument and of the fact that it has been registered.

This Order, which is made in consequence of the Enduring Powers of Attorney (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, extends section 7(3) to instruments registered under that Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1973 c. 36; section 38 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Act 1982 (c. 38).

[^f00002]: 1974 c. 28.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/1627 (N.I. 16).

[^f00004]: 1985 c. 29.