DESIGNS REGULATIONS 2004 - REG 11.29 Acting for persons unable to act

DESIGNS REGULATIONS 2004 - REG 11.29

  (1)   If a person is incapable of doing anything required or permitted by the Act or these Regulations to be done because of infancy, mental disability, physical disability or disease, a court may, on the application by a person acting for the incapable person or by any other person interested in the doing of the thing:

  (a)   do that thing in the name of, and on behalf of, the incapable person; or

  (b)   appoint a person to do the thing in the name of, and on behalf of, the incapable person.

  (2)   A thing done in the name of, and on behalf of, an incapable person is taken to have been done by that person as if he or she had not been incapable when the thing was done.

  (3)   In this regulation:

"mental disability" means a disturbance or defect, to a severely disabling degree, of perceptual interpretation, comprehension, reasoning, learning, judgment, memory, motivation or emotion.