Lasting power of attorney - certificate provider

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Does anyone know if the attorney can be someone who has U.K. citizenship but lives abroad? If that’s the case should I use this person’s previous U.K. address or current address abroad?
Also - can the certificate provider be someone who has lives in UK but has an EU citizenship?

Don't know answers to your questions.

However to me it sounds impractical to have an attorney living abroad.

https://publicguardian.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/13/your-questions-answered-attorneys-witnesses-and-certificate-providers/

Yes to both.

@Lougle thank you!

Yes, my sister and I are both attorneys and she lives about as far away from the UK as is physically possible!

Yes, but the OP is asking about the certificate provider, not the attorneys.

The answer is yes, they don't have to live in the UK as the certificate provider is a one off confirmation signature at the setting up stage of the POA. Nothing to do with ongoing use of the POA by the attorneys.

But, logic dictates it should be someone who can be relatively easily contactable in the future if there was ever any doubt or challenge about the validity of the POA, so the certificate provider could be contacted to confirm that they did indeed discuss the application and witness the signature.

Not to be pedantic (okay, I am being pedantic), the the post starts
"Does anyone know if the attorney can be someone who has U.K. citizenship but lives abroad?"

But the heading says "certificate provider", so perhaps OP themselves doesn't understand the difference??

Hi both- tuankbyou for your input, the heading is confusing! In my case: attorney lives abroad but has uk citizenship and is easily contactable. Certificate provider lives in uk but has eu citizenship.