{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-101",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-101.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/18",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/101",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "101",
  "heading": "Appointment of attorneys: requirements as respects attorneys",
  "text": "(1) A person appointed as an attorney by an instrument executed with a view to creating a lasting power of attorney (a “relevant instrument”) must be—\n(a) an individual who is 18 or over at the time the instrument is executed; or\n(b) if the instrument relates only to the donor's property and affairs, either such an individual or a trust corporation.\n(2) An individual who is bankrupt may not be appointed by a relevant instrument as an attorney in relation to the donor's property and affairs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/101",
    "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."
}