http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/3-4/28Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 1940An Act to empower certain officers and other persons to administer oaths and take affidavits, to facilitate the proof in criminal proceedings of documents intercepted in the post, and to make further provision as respects powers of attorney.1975-12-31texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2015-04-21Expert Participation2009-10-01
Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 19401940 c.28An Act to empower certain officers and other persons to administer oaths and take affidavits, to facilitate the proof in criminal proceedings of documents intercepted in the post, and to make further provision as respects powers of attorney.[13th June 1940]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c590668"/>1 Proof of instruments creating powers of attorney. <CommentaryRef Ref="c590669"/>41A document purporting to be—a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ban extract of an instrument creating a power of attorney registered in Scotland in the books of council and session; orcan office copy of an instrument deposited in the proper office of the Court of Judicature under section forty-eight of the Conveyancing Act, 1881, as it applies to Northern Ireland;shall, in any part of the United Kingdom, without further proof be sufficient evidence of the contents of the instrument and of the fact that it has been so deposited or registered.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <CommentaryRef Ref="c590673"/>5 †Short title and interpretation.81This Act may be cited as the Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act, 1940.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Act applied by S.I. 1966/1168Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3A dagger appended to a marginal note means that it is no longer accurateAct extended by S.I. 1985/226, rule 41Ss. 1—3 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 c. 5 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2)S. 4 saved by Powers of Attorney Act 1971 (c. 27), s. 3(4); extended by Powers of Attorney Act 1971 (c. 27), s. 3(5)S. 4(1)(a) repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 71881 c. 41. S. 4(2) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)Ss. 5—7, 8(2) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 c. 5 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2)Ss. 5—7, 8(2) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 c. 5 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2)Words in Act substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)