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<Pnumber>41</Pnumber>
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<Text>The appropriate authority may make regulations—</Text>
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<Text>expanding the role of independent mental capacity advocates in relation to persons who lack capacity, and</Text>
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<Text>adjusting the obligation to make arrangements imposed by section 35.</Text>
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<Text>The regulations may, in particular—</Text>
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<Text>prescribe circumstances (different to those set out in sections 37, 38 and 39) in which an independent mental capacity advocate must, or circumstances in which one may, be instructed by a person of a prescribed description to represent a person who lacks capacity, and</Text>
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<Text>include provision similar to any made by section 37, 38, 39 or 40.</Text>
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<Text>“Appropriate authority” has the same meaning as in section 35.</Text>
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