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POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT 1998 - SECT 61B Effect on beneficiary’s interest if property dealt with by attorney

POWERS OF ATTORNEY ACT 1998 - SECT 61B

Effect on beneficiary’s interest if property dealt with by attorney

61B Effect on beneficiary’s interest if property dealt with by attorney

(1) This section applies to a person who is a beneficiary (
"the beneficiary" ) under a deceased principal’s will.
(2) The beneficiary has the same interest in any surplus money or other property (
"the proceeds" ) arising from a sale, mortgage, charge, disposition of, or other dealing with, property under the powers given to an attorney under an enduring power of attorney as the beneficiary would have had in the property sold, mortgaged, charged, disposed of or otherwise dealt with, if the sale, mortgage, charge, disposition or other dealing had not happened.
(3) The beneficiary is also entitled to—
(a) any money or other property that is able to be traced as income generated by the proceeds; and
(b) any capital gain that is generated from the proceeds.
(4) This section applies even if the beneficiary is the attorney who sold, mortgaged, charged, disposed of or otherwise dealt with the property.
(5) This section applies subject to any order made by the court under section 61D (1) .