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'''Power to adjust role of independent mental capacity advocate'''
 
41.—(1) The appropriate authority may make regulations-
 
:(a) expanding the role of independent mental capacity advocates in relation to persons who lack capacity, and

:(b) adjusting the obligation to make arrangements imposed by section 35.

(2) The regulations may, in particular-
 
:(a) prescribe circumstances (different to those set out in sections 37, 38 and 39) in which an independent mental capacity advocate must, or circumstances in which one may, be instructed by a person of a prescribed description to represent a person who lacks capacity, and

:(b) include provision similar to any made by section 37, 38, 39 or 40.

(3) "Appropriate authority" has the same meaning as in section 35.

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