Commentary on Sections Schedule 29 – Minor and consequential amendments: Northern Ireland Paragraphs 76 to 78 – Enduring Powers of Attorney (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/ 1627 (N.I. 16))
1126.Article 5(5) of the Enduring Powers of Attorney (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 enables an attorney to make gifts of reasonable value out of a donor’s property at the time or anniversary of a marriage. Paragraph 76 extends Article 5(5) so that an attorney may also make such gifts at the time or on the anniversary of the registration of a civil partnership.
1127.Paragraph 77 amends paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1987 Order to include civil partners in the list of relatives who are entitled to receive notification of an attorney’s intention to apply to register the instrument creating the power of attorney.