# Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, Paragraph 4

Extent: E+W

(1) This paragraph applies where a Chapter I or Chapter II landlord lacks capacity (within the meaning of the Mental Capacity Act 2005) to exercise his functions as a landlord.
(2) For the purposes of the Chapter concerned, the landlord's place is to be taken—
(a) by a donee of an enduring power of attorney or lasting power of attorney (within the meaning of the 2005 Act), or a deputy appointed for him by the Court of Protection, with power to exercise those functions, or
(b) if no deputy or donee has that power, by a person authorised in that respect by that court.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/28/schedule/2/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/leasehold-reform-housing-and-urban-development-act-1993/schedule-2/paragraph-4
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