Is it possible for an educational trust to execute a General power of Attorney to sell its property?
General Power of Attorney or GPA is an authorisation assigned to any person or group of persons to do the acts defined in the deed or document pertaining to the GPA. The authorisation to do an act or omit to do an act can be given by only that person or group of persons who have such legal right to do it themselves. By authorising some one else to do an act or omit to do an act on his or their behalf the Principal or Principals is/are basically appointing an agent or agents, to take up the responsibility of conducting work on his or their behalf. In the given case the educational trust must be run by authorised trustees to conduct the activity of the trust including transfer of its property, if this so, then they have right to appoint agent on their behalf to do acts pertaining to selling of the property of the Trust on their behalf, for this the general power of attorney executed. The date of execution of the GPA has to be mentioned in it and even if that is not mentioned the GPA that