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# Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 1943

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 1943
1943 c.18
An Act to amend the Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 1940, to provide for the proof of notarial acts of certain foreign, diplomatic and consular representatives, and for purposes connected therewith.
[22nd April 1943]

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-13}



## 4 Evidence of notarial acts done by certain foreign diplomatic and consular representatives. {#section-4}

The Secretary of State may by order direct that so much of subsection (2) of section six of the Commissioners for Oaths Act 1889, as relates to the proof of notarial acts done in foreign countries and places by British diplomatic and consular officers shall apply in relation to notarial acts done by such persons as may be specified in the order, being persons serving in the diplomatic, consular or other foreign service of a Power which, by arrangement with His Majesty, has undertaken to represent His interest in any country or place in which His Majesty has for the time being no diplomatic or consular representatives appointed on the advice of His Government in the United Kingdom.

## 5 †Construction, short title and citation. {#section-5}

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) This Act may be cited as the Evidence and Powers of Attorney Act 1943, . . . . . .