Section 2: Deposit of power of attorney
consolidated text (as at 1992, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
2. Deposit of power of attorney
(1) Where any person who has left or leaves Mauritius has appointed or
appoints an attorney or agent in Mauritius to represent him in any capacity in
any proceedings before a Court, by an authentic deed, or by a deed under
private signatures, the notary who has drawn up such deed or who received
or receives the deposit of such power of attorney, or the holder of any such
power of attorney under private signatures, where it has not been deposited
with a notary, shall within 15 days of the date of such power of attorney or
of the date of the deposit thereof with the notary file in the Registry, where
the same may be inspected on payment of the fee provided in the Legal Fees
and Costs Rules 2000, an extract from such power of attorney relative to
such powers of agency and to the names of such agents.
(2) No party to any proceedings before a Court shall pretend ignorance of
any such power of attorney so deposited in the Registry.
[S. 2 amended by Act 29 of 1992.]