A narrow power of attorney
For one act only: one sale, collecting documents, or one case. Everything else is withheld in writing, and it ends on a date you set.
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The paper as it reads now
Special power of attorney for one act
I, your full name, holder of CNIC or NICOP number your CNIC or NICOP number, living at your address abroad, appoint:
attorney's full name
CNIC number attorney's CNIC number
of attorney's address in Pakistan
as my attorney for one act only, about this property:
the property, exactly as its papers describe it
The one act this power allows
Tick one and strike out the others.
To sell this one property, once, and to sign the sale deed and the papers the sale needs.
To apply for and collect these documents for this property, and nothing more: the documents and the office that holds them.
To pursue this one case about this property: court, title and number of the case.
For a sale only: the price is to be paid into my own account, bank, account title and account number. The attorney may not receive any part of it.
Everything else is withheld
This power covers only the act above. The attorney may not do anything else in my name.
In particular, the attorney may not gift, mortgage, rent out or transfer this or any other property of mine, other than by the act above, and may not pass this power to anyone else.
The attorney will send me a copy of every paper they sign or receive under this power.
How long it lasts
This power ends on end date, or when the act above is done, whichever comes first.
I may cancel it before then. Section 203 of the Contract Act 1872 lets me cancel it at any time before it has been used so as to bind me.
Signed by me: signature
Name: your full name
Date: date
Place: city and country
Signed before me (notary public, court or judge, or Pakistan consul), with name and seal: name, office and seal
Before you sign or send (notes for you, not part of the paper)
- Section 188 of the Contract Act 1872: an agent given authority to do an act may do every lawful thing needed to do it. That is why this paper names one act and one property. Keep both exact. Read the step
- Sign it before a notary public, a court or judge, or a Pakistan consul. Section 33(1)(c) of the Registration Act 1908 accepts a power signed this way for presenting papers for registration. Read the step
- UNCONFIRMEDNot confirmed: your embassy or consulate's own steps, appointments and fee for attesting a power of attorney. No official text we read gives them. Check your mission's website. Read the step
- Once it arrives in Pakistan, it may be stamped within three months (Stamp Act 1899, section 18(1)). The duty depends on where the property is and what the power allows: see the stamp duty step for Islamabad or Punjab. Read the step
- UNCONFIRMEDNot confirmed: whether this power must be registered. Section 17(1)(ba) of the Registration Act 1908 can be read to require it for a power over property worth Rs 100 or more. We do not settle that reading. Ask a lawyer or the sub-registrar. Read the step
- If it must be registered, present it within four months of its arrival in Pakistan (Registration Act 1908, section 26(b)). Read the step
A starting draft. No lawyer has reviewed it. Have a lawyer in Pakistan read it before you sign or send it.
What this paper rests on
You
Write the power for the one act you need, such as one sale or one case. An agent may do every lawful thing needed for that act, so name the act and the property exactly.
s188, Contract Act 1872, read .
The text says
An agent having an authority to do an act has authority to do every lawful thing which is necessary in order to do such act.
Notary, court or Pakistan consul
Sign the power before a notary public, a court or judge, or a Pakistan consul, so it can be used to present papers for registration.
s33(1)(c), Registration Act 1908, read .
The text says
a power-of-attorney executed before and authenticated by a Notary Public, or any Court, Judge, Magistrate, Pakistan Consul or Vice-Consul or representative of ... the Federal Government
Pakistani mission
Have the power attested by a Pakistani mission. You can do it online through NADRA's Digital Power of Attorney from where you live, even with no mission in your country: make an account, upload the signed power and the fingerprints of you and two witnesses, pay by card, then a consular officer interviews you by video. Pick the right mission when you apply, or the application can be rejected. Your mission's own page gives its walk-in steps and fee.
Application Submission Guidelines, Video Interview, NADRA, Digital Power of Attorney, read .
The text says
The Consular Officer will schedule and conduct an online (video) interview with the applicant to determine the final decision on the case.
Stamp office Punjab
Once the power arrives in Pakistan, get it stamped within three months.
s18(1), Punjab Stamp Act 1899, read .
The text says
executed only out of Pakistan, and not being a bill of exchange, ... or promissory note, may be stamped within three months after it has been first received in Pakistan
Stamp office Islamabad
Pay stamp duty. A power for one transaction is Rs 1,000.
Schedule I, Article 48(b), Stamp Act 1899 (Pakistan Code), read .
The text says
when authorizing one person or more to act in a single transaction other than the case mentioned in clause (a)
Stamp office Punjab
Pay stamp duty. It depends on what the power allows: a power to sell for payment costs far more than a narrow one.
Schedule I, Article 48, Punjab Stamp Act 1899, read .
The text says
when given for consideration and authorizing the attorney to sell any immovable property; three percent of the amount calculated according to the value notified by the district collector ... (c) in any other case. one hundred rupees for each person authorized
Sub-registrar
Ask the sub-registrar whether your power must be registered.
UNCONFIRMED: This clause can be read to make registration compulsory for a power over property worth Rs 100 or more. We do not settle that reading. Ask a lawyer or the sub-registrar.
s17(1)(ba), Registration Act 1908, read .
The text says
an instrument which grants power to an attorney or which constitutes an agreement to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, by way of sale, any right, title or interest of the value of one hundred rupees and upward, to or in immovable property;
Sub-registrar
If it must be registered, present it within four months of its arrival in Pakistan.
s26(b), Registration Act 1908, read .
The text says
that it has been presented for registration within four months after its arrival in Pakistan
You
You can cancel the power at any time before the agent has used it.
s203, Contract Act 1872, read .
The text says
The principal may, save as is otherwise provided by the last preceding section, revoke the authority given to his agent at any time before the authority has been exercised so as to bind the principal.