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Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47 of 1937)

Chapter VIII : Miscellaneous

95. Attestation of powers of attorney executed in the Republic

 

(1) Any power of attorney executed within the Republic shall, if it purports to give authority to pass, cede, amend or cancel a deed capable of being registered or to perform any act proper to be performed in a deeds registry, be attested either by two witnesses above the age of fourteen years, competent to give evidence in any court of law in the Republic, or by a magistrate, justice of the peace, commissioner of oaths or notary public, duly described as such: Provided that no person shall be competent to attest any power of attorney under which he is appointed as an agent or derives any benefit.

 

(2) [Section 95(2) repealed by section 67 of Act No. 16 of 1967]