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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-4/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/18",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The court must direct the Public Guardian to cancel the registration of an instrument as a lasting power of attorney if it—\n(a) determines under section 110(2)(a) that a requirement for creating the lasting power of attorney was not met;\n(b) determines under section 110(2)(b) that the lasting power of attorney has been revoked or has otherwise come to an end; or\n(c) revokes the lasting power of attorney under section 110(4)(b) (fraud etc).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/schedule/4/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:54.781348+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."
}