Section 7

No deed, document or other instrument sealed with the seal of the Corporation shall be deemed to be duly sealed unless such seal has been affixed in the presence of the said Antonio Augusto Cardozo or his attorney duly authorised by a power of attorney deposited under section 48 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1886, or in the presence of his successor for the time being in his said office of Agent of the Commission for the Administration of the Estates of the Portuguese Missions in China at Singapore, and duly qualified as aforesaid, or his attorney duly authorised as aforesaid, and unless such deed, document or other instrument is signed by the said Antonio Augusto Cardozo or his attorney as aforesaid or a successor in his said office, or the attorney of such successor authorised as aforesaid.

Such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deed or document or other instrument.