Powers of Attorney Act 2006

This section applies if any of the following events happen:

a person (the relevant person) resigns the person’s appointment as attorney under a power of attorney;

the appointment of a person (the relevant person) as an attorney under a power of attorney is revoked;

a court or the ACAT makes an order in relation to a power of attorney that affects the appointment of a person (the relevant person) under the power of attorney.

The relevant person must give notice of the event to—

any other attorney or person authorised under the power of attorney to exercise the relevant person’s powers as attorney; and

if the event is the making of a court order or ACAT order in relation to the power of attorney that affects the relevant person’s authorisation under the power of attorney—each person dealing with the relevant person as an attorney.

An attorney under a general power of attorney may authorise someone to exercise the attorney’s powers (see s 33).

For how documents may be given, see the Legislation Act, pt 19.5.

However, the relevant person need not give notice under subsection (2) to a person (the informed person) about an event if the relevant person believes, on reasonable grounds, that the informed person already knows about the event.