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  "title": "POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT, 1882",
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  "text": "THE POWER-OF-ATTORNEY ACT, 1882 \r\n(VII of 1882) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1.  Short title, local extent, commencement. \r\n2.  Execution under power-of-Attorney.  \r\n3.  Payment by attorney under power, without notice of death, etc., good \r\n4.  Omitted \r\n5.  Omitted \r\n6.  Repealed \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE POWERS-OF-ATTORNEY ACT, 1882  \r\n(VII of 1882) \r\n[24th February, 1882] \r\nAn \r\nAct \r\nto amend the law relating to Powers-of-Attorney. \r\n For the purpose of amending the law relating to Powers -of-Attorney; it is \r\nhereby enacted as follows:– \r\n1. Short title.– (1) This Act may be called the Powers-of-Attorney Act, 1882.  \r\n Local extent, \r\n2\r\n[(2) It extends to whole of the Punjab]. \r\nCommencement, (3) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Execution under power -of-attorney.– The donee of a power -of-attorney \r\nmay, if he thinks fit, execute or do any assurance, instrument or thing in and with his \r\nown name and signature, and his own seal, wher e sealing is required, by the \r\nauthority of the donor of the power; and every assurance, instrument and thing so \r\nexecuted and done, shall be as effectual in law as if it had been executed or done by \r\nthe donee of the power in the name, and with the signature  and seal, of the donor \r\nthereof.   \r\n This section applies to powers -of-attorney created by instruments executed \r\neither before or after this Act comes into force. \r\n3.  Payment by attorney under power, without notice of death, etc., good .– \r\nAny person making or  doing any payment or act in good faith, in pursuance of a \r\npower-of- attorney, shall not be liable in respect of the payment or act by reason that, \r\nbefore the payment or act, the donor of the power had died or become lunatic, of \r\nunsound mind, or bankrupt  or insolvent, or had revoked the power, if the fact of \r\ndeath, lunacy, unsoundness of mind, bankruptcy, insolvency or revocation was not, \r\nat the time of the payment or act, known to the person making or doing the same.   \r\n But this section shall not affect an y right against the payee of any person \r\ninterested in any money so paid; and that persons shall have the like remedy against \r\nthe payee as he would have had against the payer, if the payment had not been \r\nmade by him. \r\n                                                           \r\n1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1881, Pt. V, p. 1473; for Proceedings in Council, see ibid., 1881, \r\nSupplement, p.1409, and ibid., 1882, Supplement, p.204. \r\nThis Act was originally in the Federal ambit, however, the subj ect on which this law was enacted, devolved to the provinces by \r\nvirtue of 18 th Amendment in the Constitution, hence it was adapted, with amendments, for the province of the Punjab by the \r\nPowers of Attorney (Amendment) Act 2012 (IV of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, \r\npages 40195-40196. \r\n2“It extends to the whole of Pakistan” is substituted as “It  extends to whole of the Punjab”  by the Pow ers of Attorney \r\n(Amendment) Act  2012 (IV of 2012) ; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40195 -\r\n40196, s.2. \r\n This section applies only to payments a nd acts made or done after this Act \r\ncomes into force. \r\n3\r\n[4. Deposit of original instruments creating powers-of-attorney.– *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ] \r\n4\r\n[5. Power-of-attorney of married women.– * * * * * *   ] \r\n5\r\n[6. Act XXVIII of 1866, S. 39, repealed.– * * * * * * *   ] \r\n                                                           \r\n3Sections 4 omitted by the Powers of Attorney (Amendment) Act 2012 (IV of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette \r\n(Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40195-40196, s.3. \r\n4Omitted ibid., s.3. \r\n5Repealed by the Amending Act, 1891 (XII of 1891) ; and published in the Government Gazette Punjab and Its Dependencies, \r\nPart IV, dated 9.4.1891, pages 21-67, s.2 and First Schedule.",
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