Mental Capacity Act |
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2014 |
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Citation and commencement |
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and shall come into operation on 1 September 2014. |
Amendment of regulation 2 |
2. Regulation 2 of the Mental Capacity Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 105/2010) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —
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Amendment of regulation 3 |
3. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “the First to Sixth Schedules” and substituting the words “the Schedule or at the Public Guardian’s website”. |
Amendment of regulation 4 |
4. Regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the word “First”. |
Deletion of regulation 6 |
5. Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is deleted. |
Amendment of regulation 8 |
Deletion of regulation 9 |
7. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is deleted. |
Amendment of regulation 10 |
8. Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations is amended —
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Deletion and substitution of regulation 12 |
9. Regulation 12 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
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Amendment of regulation 13 |
10. Regulation 13 of the principal Regulations is amended —
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Amendment of regulation 15 |
11. Regulation 15(3) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “paragraph 5, 6 or 7” in sub‑paragraph (a) and substituting the words “paragraph 6 or 7”. |
Amendment of regulation 16 |
12. Regulation 16 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or named person” in paragraph (c). |
Amendment of regulation 17 |
13. Regulation 17 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph:
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Amendment of regulation 18 |
14. Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph:
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Amendment of regulation 19 |
15. Regulation 19 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “deliver up” in paragraphs (1)(a) and (2) and substituting in each case the word “deliver”. |
Amendment of regulation 20 |
16. Regulation 20 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
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Deletion and substitution of regulation 27 |
17. Regulation 27 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
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Deletion of First to Sixth Schedules and substitution of Schedule |
18. The First to Sixth Schedules to the principal Regulations are deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:
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Transitional and savings provisions |
19.—(1) Notwithstanding these Regulations, an instrument intended to create a lasting power of attorney may be executed, on or after 1 September 2014 but before 1 October 2014, in one of the forms set out in the First Schedule to the principal Regulations in force immediately before 1 September 2014, as if these Regulations had not been made.
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Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore. |
[MSF 132-31-27; AG/LLRD/SL/177A/2010/3 Vol. 3] |