Commentary on Sections Part 5 – Lasting Powers of Attorney Chapter 1 - Lasting Powers of Attorney Section 109 – Reliance on authority of attorney in relation to treatment etc
If a person (“D”) does an act in connection with the care, treatment or personal welfare of a person (“P”) based on the consent of an attorney purportedly acting under P’s LPA but it subsequently emerges that either the attorney did not have the authority to provide the consent, or that the person acting as attorney is not actually an attorney under the LPA; as long as D has taken reasonable steps to check that the attorney has been appointed by P’s LPA and that the attorney has authority to consent to the matter in question, D will not incur any liability in relation to the act.