What are the restrictions on the power of the Donee?

Before acting on the Donor's behalf, the Donee is required to obtain a medical report from a registered medical practitioner, certifying that the Donor lacks mental capacity to make personal welfare and/or property and affairs decisions.
A Donor may restrict the scope or exclude the types of decisions that a Donee may make. E.g. the Donor appointing a Donee for property & affairs matters may state in an LPA Form 2 that the Donee cannot make any decisions on investments.
There are certain decisions which Donees cannot make on Donor’s behalf. These are:
* Consenting to Marriage
* Consenting to touching of a sexual nature
* Consenting to divorce on the basis of three years’ separation
* Consenting to a making of an adoption order
* Adopting or renouncing a religion
* Receiving treatment for change of gender
* Consenting or revoking consent to treatment for sexual sterilisation
* Consenting or revoking consent to abortion
* Registering or withdrawing an objection regarding the removal of an organ from any person upon death
* Making or revoking an Advanced Medical Directive
* Making or revoking a gift of a body or any part of a body
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