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Acting as an attorney - duties, including registering a lasting power, starting to act, gifting, handling disputes and replacement attorney responsibilities.
You can make decisions on someone’s behalf if they appoint you using a…
As a property and financial affairs attorney, you make (or help the donor…
As a health and welfare attorney, you make (or help the donor make)…
The lasting power of attorney (LPA) must be registered before you can…
Keep a record of: important decisions you make and when, for example…
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You must tell the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) if: you or the donor…
The lasting power of attorney (LPA) ends when the donor dies. You must…
How the UK supports the use of combined heat and power (CHP) or 'cogeneration', which avoids network losses and reduces emissions.
Government incentives for CHP schemes
Share a summary of a lasting power of attorney (LPA) with an organisation, add an LPA summary, keep track of which organisations can view an LPA summary.
This note is part of the statutory guidance under s215 of the HRA 2008 (from 1 April 2024)
How to make a lasting power of attorney (LPA): starting an application online, choosing an attorney, certifying a copy, changing an LPA.
Explaining the background to devolution and how the legislatures and administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland work.
The key aim of the Offtaker of Last Resort is to encourage competition in the Power Purchase Agreement market.
This note applies from 1 April 2024
Guidance on powers of entry and how they are created or modified, using the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries
£16.6 million investment announced today to give semiconductor researchers and businesses access to new equipment helping them test and make chips for use in high-energy machines like electric cars and manufacturing equipment.
This series brings together all documents relating to Combined heat and power statistics.
This guide provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities in providing access to affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity
Acting as an attorney - duties, including finding an enduring power of attorney, registering an EPA, starting to act, making gifts and stopping being an attorney
Mark joined the Diplomatic Service in 2009 having previously worked as a journalist for ITN, primarily as a Producer on Channel 4 News. In London he worked in the FCO’s National Security Directorate, Americas Directorate and was also seconded to...
How hydroelectric power works, regional schemes and information on installing your own micro-hydro scheme.
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