{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-and-powers-of-attorney-act-1940/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-and-powers-of-attorney-act-1940/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/3-4/28",
  "legislation_title": "Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 1940",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-and-powers-of-attorney-act-1940",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Proof of instruments creating powers of attorney.",
  "text": "(1) A document purporting to be—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) an extract of an instrument creating a power of attorney registered in Scotland in the books of council and session; or\n(c) an office copy of an instrument deposited in the proper office of the Court of Judicature under section forty-eight of the Conveyancing Act, 1881, as it applies to Northern Ireland;\nshall, in any part of the United Kingdom, without further proof be sufficient evidence of the contents of the instrument and of the fact that it has been so deposited or registered.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(1)(a) repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), s. 152(4), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 6; S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 4(2) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1881 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 saved by Powers of Attorney Act 1971 (c. 27), s. 3(4); extended by Powers of Attorney Act 1971 (c. 27), s. 3(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/3-4/28/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:31:12.834496+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}