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- A donor’s signature must be witnessed by: someone aged 18 or over not a named attorney or replacement attorney An attorney’s signature must be witnessed by: someone aged 18 or over who is not the donor Attorneys or replacement attorneys can witness each other’s signature but not the donor’s.
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- Summary
- About this guidance
- Using the correct form for your LPA
- Printing your LPA
- The certificate provider
- Making mistakes and making corrections to your LPA
- Donor and attorney details
- Health and welfare: life-sustaining treatment (section 5)
A lasting power of attorney (LPA) is a legal document that lets you (the ‘donor’) appoint one or more people (known as ‘attorneys’) to help you make decisions or to make decisions on your behalf.
This gives you more control over what happens to you if you have an accident or an illness and cannot make your own decisions (you ‘do not have mental capacity’).
This guide will help you complete the LPA forms and avoid making common mistakes.
In this guide ‘you’ means the donor.
It’s important that the LPA forms are filled out correctly. The attorneys you have appointed may not be able to make important decisions for you if there is an error in the LPA.
If you make an error on your LPA, it could mean:
•a delay in the registration process
•your LPA is not legally valid
There are two LPA forms:
•LP1F for property and financial affairs
•LP1H for health and welfare decisions
Most sections in the forms are similar. Make sure you have:
•the correct pages for your type of LPA
•all pages numbered 1 to 20, including the information page (section 8, page 9)
The easiest way to complete an LPA is to use OPG’s ‘Make a lasting power of attorney’ online service. It helps guide you through the process and can help reduce errors. At the end you will need to print the form so that it can be signed and dated. The online service is only available in English.
Alternatively, you may decide to print the forms to fill in yourself. If you cannot print the forms yourself, you can request an LPA pack to be sent to your address by calling our contact centre on 0300 456 0300.
The LPA is a legal form so needs to be clearly printed; the forms should match how they look online. Please make sure your PDF software is updated to prevent possible issues.
Check everything on the form before you print it, including details that have been pre-populated if you have made your LPA online. You must make sure all the words are printed on the correct pages and do not follow on to the next page.
Certificate providers are impartial people who confirm you understand what you are doing, and that nobody is forcing you to make the LPA.
You must choose a certificate provider who is impartial. Being impartial means the certificate provider can judge or consider the LPA fairly without allowing their own interest to influence their role. Examples of people that won’t be accepted are: family members, an attorney, your employee.
Your attorneys will need to show your LPA document to third parties when they begin to act for you. Therefore, it’s important that all the details on the LPA are correct.
Do not use any type of correction fluid or stickers as OPG won’t be able to register your LPA and you will have to pay again for a new LPA.
Each mistake on an LPA form needs to be corrected and initialled.
The person who made the mistake must initial (write their initials next to) the correction. This is shown in the examples below.
You need to make sure all the details for yourself and your attorneys are correct. These include:
•full name (the name on your identification document(s))
•date of birth in the format DD/MM/YYYY
•address and postcode
You will write this information in section 1 and section 2 of the form. This also relates to section 4 if you decide to have replacement attorneys.
If you have made a mistake, for example you’ve written a wrong date of birth, please refer to the ‘Making mistakes and making corrections to your LPA’ section of this guidance.
You must choose either option A or option B. You must only sign and date one option.
This section has a different layout to the other sections of the LPA form. The difference is how the witness details are laid out. They go across the bottom of the form.
You need to make sure the witness gives their full name and address, and signs in the correct box:
This section has to be filled out correctly for the LPA to be valid. Any errors on this page may result in you having to make a new LPA and paying the fee again.
Feb 13, 2024 · Attorneys and/or replacement attorneys sign. The witness signs to verify the attorneys and/or replacement attorneys’ signature. You can find more detail on the order of signing and how to fill...
- Defnyddio’r ffurflen anghywir. Gan fod dau fath o atwrneiaeth arhosol ar gael, mae llawer yn defnyddio’r un anghywir yn ddamweiniol. Mae llawer o bobl yn defnyddio’r ffurflen iechyd a lles, pan ddylent fod yn defnyddio'r ffurflen eiddo a materion ariannol.
- Anghofio enw’ch cleient. Hanner ffordd drwy’r cais, efallai y byddwch yn anghofio pwy yw eich cleient, pwy yw darparwr y dystysgrif a phwy yw’r tyst (chi).
- Bod yn amwys am driniaeth cynnal bywyd. Nid dim ond blwch ticio ar y ffurflen iechyd a lles yw hwn, mae’n fater o fywyd a marwolaeth. Mae’r Senedd, y Llysoedd a meddygon yn rhoi ystyriaeth ddifrifol iawn i'r dudalen hon.
- Gwneud yr anghyfreithlon yn orfodol. Os teimlwn fod rhan o’r ffurflen yn cynnwys rhywbeth anghyfreithlon, mae gennym ddyletswydd statudol i ofyn am gyngor gan y Llys Gwarchod.
Jun 25, 2013 · Download the forms and guidance to make and register a lasting power of attorney (LPA).
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Who can be a witness or certificate provider. Witnesses and certificate providers must be 18 or over. Attorneys can witness each other sign, but they cannot: witness you sign. sign as the ...
In sections 9 to 11, you, the certificate provider, all your attorneys and your replacement attorneys must sign this lasting power of attorney to form a legal agreement between you (a deed)....