When there's a power of attorney involved in a conveyancing transaction, we need to check that the power of attorney that we've seen is the most recent one and it is still correct. And on sales, of course, we shouldn't be dealing with attorney sales. We shouldn't act on behalf of an attorney.
We can act on behalf of the donor, so the actual client, but not an attorney. We wouldn't take that on. On a purchase side of things, If it comes to light that the seller has got a power of attorney, it's the property is being sold via the LPA, then we need to carry out an OPG 100 form.
There's a copy of it on the intranet, and you can also find it just by googling OPG 100, and this form will come up. So we need to complete this, save it as a PDF, and then email it through to Public Guardian. So you'll see here there's descriptions on how to fill in this form.
in the actual form itself and it says here where to send the completed form and it says please write registers as the subject so it gives you some information here about what you can find out what information we need to be we need to provide them with how to report a concern about an attorney or deputy but in short section one we need to put our details so you would just put your name and what your relationship is to the donor or client and the address you just put avrillo llp and then the office address email address you would put the fee earners email address and the office telephone number donor or client details would be the details as per the power of attorney so you would literally just pop all of that information in as per what's written on the You then need to click in section three. We're searching the register of the lasting powers of attorney. This one section four, we put something along the lines of confirmation that LPA we hold is the most up to date. Why do you need this information?
You'd write something along the lines of we are the legal representative for the purchase of a property being sold by an attorney. and need to confirm the LPA provided by the seller solicitor is the most up-to-date version. What steps have you taken to get the information from the donor or client?
You would say we have a copy of the LPA from the seller's solicitor and you would literally just control p, print that to pdf, save it to your desktop, open a new email and send attach the pdf to that email. to this email address with the word registers in the subject and once you'd sent that email you would drag that across into the file history just so that everybody knows that that has been carried out and ideally you should also put a note on the front to say OPG 100 form submitted and then the date and then whoever goes into the file in the future will know that they need to keep an eye out for that having been received back in and they shouldn't proceed until that has been received back in we've got confirmation that the version we have seen is the most up-to-date one.