Court of Protection

The standard application form should be completed with the main beneficial owner's details. We will need to sight the original and we need to sight the original sealed (bearing the impressed seal of the court) Court of Protection document.

Please note - Your local branch can take a copy of the sealed Order and send it to us on your behalf, but we do not accept photocopies or certified copies which have been produced outside of the society.

Each Deputy being registered will also need to complete a Power of Attorney / Court Appointee Form.

Alternatively you can visit your local Yorkshire Building Society Branch or telephone our contact centre on 0345 1 200 100*.

Correspondence will be sent to the Deputy once the Power has been registered. Where there is more than one Deputy registered, the first Deputy will receive correspondence.

Before completing the Power of Attorney/Court Appointee form, you should ensure you have read our information on the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. You will need to sign the relevant box to confirm this.

Proof of identity - Required identification

Face to face application in branch: One piece of name identification and one piece of address identification.

One piece of name identification, one piece of address identification and one further piece of name or address identification.

If the Beneficial Owner is NOT already a Yorkshire Building Society customer, or has moved into a care home you will need to provide three forms of their ID (One piece of name identification, one piece of address identification and one further piece of name or address identification).

Our ‘Proof of Identity’ factsheet details the types of identification we accept and how recent they must be.

 

For assistance please contact our Power of Attorney team on 01274 263 037*, option 1, option 2.

You will need to complete the relevant online application process with the Beneficial Owner’s details by clicking the ‘Apply Now’ button from within the account information pages. Once the application has been submitted, we will need to sight an order which bears the impressed seal of the court.

Please note - Your local branch can take a copy of the sealed Order and send it to us on your behalf, but we do not accept photocopies or certified copies which have been produced outside of the society.

If requested during the account opening process, we will require ID for the Beneficial owner.

Each Deputy being registered will need to complete a Power of Attorney / Court Appointee form and satisfy our ID requirements.

Alternatively you can visit your local Yorkshire Building Society Branch or telephone our contact centre on 0345 1 200 100*.

Correspondence will be sent to the Deputy once the Order has been registered. Where there is more than one Deputy registered, the first Deputy will receive correspondence.

Before completing the Power of Attorney/Court Appointee form, you should ensure you have read our information on the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. You will need to sign the relevant box to confirm this.

Proof of identity - Required identification

Beneficial Owner

You will be advised on account opening if any identification is required before the account can be activated. The maximum identification that will be required is three forms of identification (one piece of name identification, one piece of address identification and one additional piece of address identification).

Deputy

All Court of Protection registrations are processed at our Bradford Office. On receipt of your documents they will be reviewed and we will use our electronic verification system to verify the Deputy(s). If this is successful, that’s all we need to do. However in certain cases (for example you are not listed on the electoral roll or you have recently moved address) we may need additional proof of identity.

If you are providing identification to us in branch, the maximum we will need is one piece of name identification and one piece of address identification.

If you are sending identification through the post, the maximum we will need is one piece of name identification, one piece of address identification and one further piece of name or address identification.

Our ‘Proof of Identity’ factsheet details the types of identification we accept and how recent they must be. It also explains how to get documents certified as a true copy of the original.