# Office for Seniors — Enduring Power of Attorney: two-page A4 information leaflet, March 2025 March 2025 Office for Seniors introductory EPA leaflet and preparation checklist; two physical pages, separate from legal forms and standard explanations. ## What this source contributes This two-page Office for Seniors leaflet introduces enduring powers of attorney and provides a checklist for preparing to meet a legal adviser. It distinguishes property decisions from personal care and welfare, explains that the appointed attorney need not be a lawyer, and encourages choosing someone trusted, willing and able. Preparation prompts cover powers and limits, consultation, assets and debts, copies, property-EPA timing, oversight and replacement attorneys. The leaflet discusses possible ways to reduce costs without promising a price or discount. Its footer identifies the March 2025 edition, not the obsolete 2024 source URL. This is simplified introductory information, not the prescribed forms, standard explanations or comprehensive advice on signing, capacity or activation; the leaflet expressly defers to relevant legislation where wording conflicts. ## Contents and page references - EPA introduction, purpose, property and personal care/welfare types, and choosing an attorney (physical p.1) - Fees, information link, EPA preparation checklist and simplified-language/version footer (physical p.2) ## Substantive findings - The original contains two physical pages and is headed Enduring Power of Attorney. The footer identifies 6847OFS MAR 2025; Adobe production/modification metadata is 24 March 2025, which does not establish an exact first-release day (physical pp.1–2). - The current Office for Seniors creation page links this same leaflet, and the publisher-hosted PDF is byte-identical to the bundle. The catalogue’s former /assets/Uploads/EPA-guide-2024.pdf URL returned HTTP 404 on review. - The leaflet distinguishes property EPAs covering financial matters from personal care and welfare EPAs covering health and living arrangements. It describes multiple property attorneys but one personal care and welfare attorney (physical p.1). - An appointed attorney need not be a lawyer. The leaflet encourages a trusted person who understands the role and is willing and able to undertake it; this is distinct from obtaining professional help to prepare the document (physical p.1). - Its property-EPA example allows authority before decision-making capacity is lost. The checklist asks when the property EPA should take effect; the leaflet does not provide comprehensive activation or capacity-assessment rules (physical pp.1–2). - Preparation prompts include powers and limits, people to consult, assets and debts, who receives copies, financial oversight and replacement attorneys (physical p.2). These are discussion prompts, not completed legal instructions. - Fees and possible discounts/payment arrangements are discussed as options to investigate. No fixed fee, guaranteed discount or provider-specific offer is established by the leaflet (physical p.2). - The footer states that its language is simplified and relevant legislation should be consulted where wording conflicts. The two-page leaflet does not contain the prescribed EPA forms or full witness/signature requirements (physical p.2). ## Practical use Use this short leaflet to prepare a conversation with whānau, a prospective attorney and a legal adviser, including consultation and oversight questions. Pair it with the current official forms and detailed guidance rather than treating the checklist as a completed EPA or a full account of capacity and witnessing requirements. Recommended readers: - People preparing for an EPA advice appointment - Prospective attorneys and whānau - Community support navigators ## Consumer implications - Discuss the person’s wishes, attorney responsibilities, limits, consultation and oversight before an advice appointment, and make a practical list of assets, debts and intended recipients of copies. - Check current forms, legal advice, signing and activation requirements separately; discounts and online preparation options do not remove those requirements. ## Policy implications - Keep introductory leaflets clearly distinct from prescribed forms, standard explanations and detailed legal guidance. - Preserve edition-month and source-link accuracy so a superseded or broken hosting path does not mislabel the actual 2025 leaflet. ## Provider and business implications - Support providers can use the checklist for appointment preparation and referrals; the leaflet does not verify a provider’s fees, discounts or legal-service suitability. ## Dates and preserved capture The visible footer supplies March 2025 edition precision: 6847OFS MAR 2025. PDF creation/modification metadata is 24 March 2025; this is technical production evidence, not a verified first-release day. The current creation page was last modified 24 July 2025. The obsolete source path containing 2024 returned 404 and is not evidence that the bundled leaflet is a 2024 edition. Original catalogue access remains June 2026; primary-source review is 10 October 2026. - Preserved original: public/pdfs/2025 - Office for Seniors - Enduring Power of Attorney A4 Guide.pdf - Physical pages: 2 - Size: 274717 bytes - SHA-256: 97e2b9691f1b8ec2a65cf53ff2fe9a3096fbc89aa5b118ab7d66a9fe130baed8 - Original access label: June 2026 - Primary-source review: 10 October 2026 - Current linked publisher PDF: byte-identical to the preserved original. ## Evidence boundary March 2025 introductory leaflet, two physical pages, not a five-page comprehensive legal guide, prescribed form package or standard explanation. Its simplified-language disclaimer defers to relevant legislation. Source identity and current publisher-byte match are verified, but this review does not certify every legal proposition, an individual EPA’s validity, capacity or activation, or current discounts/fees. The prior 2024-named source URL is broken; the preserved 2025 PDF filename, original hash and June 2026 access label remain unchanged. Exact first-release day is unknown; footer edition, technical production, web update and evidence-review dates are separate. ## Primary sources and later context - [Current Office for Seniors leaflet PDF](https://www.officeforseniors.govt.nz/assets/Enduring-Power-of-Attorney-A4_PRINT.pdf) - [Office for Seniors — creating an EPA, with separate forms](https://www.officeforseniors.govt.nz/our-work/promoting-enduring-power-of-attorney/how-to-create-an-enduring-power-of-attorney) - [Government guidance — create an enduring power of attorney](https://www.govt.nz/browse/family-and-whanau/power-of-attorney-enduring-and-ordinary/create-an-enduring-power-of-attorney/) - [Ministry of Justice — EPA and the Family Court](https://www.justice.govt.nz/family/powers-to-make-decisions/the-court-and-enduring-power-of-attorney-epa/) The research fixture at artifacts/research/future-planning-source-identity-audit-2026-10-10.json preserves page evidence, original and live-source hashes, date distinctions, source-URL failures and the precise catalogue corrections. This brief supports research and appointment preparation; it does not replace the original source or current professional advice.