Section 3
Deposit of power of attorney
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this section, no instrument purporting to create a power of attorney shall, after the commencement of this Act, have any validity to create such power within Brunei Darussalam until —
(a)
the instrument;
(b)
if the instrument is registered in the Republic of Singapore or in Malaysia, an office copy thereof; or
(c)
a true copy of the instrument or office copy, as the case may be, duly compared therewith and marked by the Registrar with the words “true copy”, has been deposited in the office of the Registrar.
Powers of Attorney
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(2)
Where the Registrar has, in exercise of the power under section 1(2), delegated his powers and duties to any person —
(a)
such person shall at the end of each month forward to the
Registrar a return of all such instruments deposited and registered in the office of such person during such month, and every return shall give short particulars of all the instruments so deposited together with particulars of the revocation or other determination of any instrument previously deposited in that office under the provisions of this Act; and
(b)
the particulars contained in every return shall be entered in the register kept in the office of the Registrar as if the instruments to which they refer had been deposited in that office.
(3)
There shall be payable in respect of the deposit of documents under this section a fee.