Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Act 2024
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PART 5 Miscellaneous and Consequential | ||
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Power to specify form of documents | ||
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23. (1) The Compensation Body may specify the form of documents required for the purposes of this Act as it thinks fit. | ||
(2) The Compensation Body’s power under subsection (1) may be exercised in such a way as to specify 2 or more forms of any document (whether in paper or electronic form or both) referred to in that subsection, whether as alternatives, or to provide for particular circumstances or particular cases, as the Compensation Body thinks fit. | ||
(3) The form of a document specified under this section shall be— | ||
(a) completed in accordance with such directions and instructions as are specified in the document, | ||
(b) accompanied by such other documents (including a statutory declaration) as are specified in the document, and | ||
(c) if the completed document is required to be provided to— | ||
(i) the Compensation Body, | ||
(ii) another person on behalf of the Compensation Body, or | ||
(iii) any other person, | ||
so provided in the manner (if any) specified in the document. | ||
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 or subsection (3)(a), the directions and instructions referred to in that subsection may specify the circumstances in which one of 2 persons, each of whom has attained the age of 18 years and each of whom has capacity to sign the form concerned specified under this section, may sign the form on behalf of the other person where the other person is physically unable to sign the form. |