Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 4)

[F1 Part 3 S Accounts and funds

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 3 substituted (1.4.2008) by Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 10), ss. 58, 79(3); S.S.I. 2008/49, art. 2(1) (with arts. 3 4)

Purposes and application of Part S

24B Adults in respect of whom applications may be made S

(1) An application to the Public Guardian under this Part may be made only in relation to an adult who is incapable in relation to decisions about, or of safeguarding the adult's interests in, the funds to which the application relates.

(2) But an application may not be made in the case of an adult in relation to whom—

(a) there is a guardian of the type mentioned in section 33(1)(a) with powers relating to the funds in question;

(b) there is a continuing attorney with powers relating to the funds in question; or

(c) an intervention order relating to the funds in question has been granted.]