Multiple Scottish Power of Attorneys

Skibunny40

Has anyone any experience of someone with two Powers of Attorneys? I didn't think it was possible, but Office of Public Guardian is showing two POA's - both for Financial & Welfare, one registered in 2016, one in 2023, for different people as POA. Does the most recent supercede the older one? Or is the later one invalid, as the earlier one hasn't been revoked? Or are both valid?! 

user1977

Not aware of any reason why you can't have multiple POAs, and there's no principle of previous attorneys implicitly having their role revoked.

There's a certification procedure (similar to the grant of POAs) to go through in order to register a revocation:

https://www.publicguardian-scotland.gov.uk/power-of-attorney/registration/cancelling-your-poa

Is there actually a problem or dispute of some sort about it?

Skibunny40

It's more that it could cause confusion as the different sets of attorneys don't really communicate with each other, and so potentially one person is POA for one bank, while another is POA for a different bank.
In this situation, one set of attorneys is 2 people, the other is 1 person
Although it's not the case in my situation, I can see where there's potential for problems - if the granter was persuaded to grant someone else POA , whilst the original attorney had no idea, and the "bad" attorney took control of bank accounts, the original attorney wouldn't be notified (assuming they hadn't actually put the POA into action themselves)
It just seems really strange to me - far better for the system to require either revoking the original POA, or adding an additional attorney, so all attorneys are aware of each other

elsien

From previous threads on here with someone checked with the OPG in England, both are valid, unless the person chooses to revoke one of them. 

Sibling has two, but one is for his personal finances and one for his business, which is slightly different.

Full debate and OPG information here - although it is England and not sure how the Scottish system differs. 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6261792/power-of-attorney-question/p1

Skibunny40

From what I can gather, it's a very similar scenario in Scotland to England - thanks for the link to that thread Elsien. It's exactly what I was talking about & seems like a glaring loophole, but perfectly legal