Section 5

The Corporation may have and use a corporate seal which may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as to the Corporation seems fit.

All deeds, documents or other instruments requiring to be sealed with the seal of the Corporation shall be deemed to be duly sealed if such seal be affixed in the presence of the said Euphrasie Labordenave or other the Lady Superior in Penang of the Society of Saint Maur for the time being, or by her attorney duly authorised by a Power of Attorney deposited under section 48 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1886, and if each such deed, document or other instrument be signed by the said Euphrasie Labordenave or her successor or her attorney so authorised as aforesaid, and such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence that the seal of the Corporation was duly and properly affixed, and that the same is the lawful seal of the Corporation.

The Corporation may sue and be sued in respect of its property or otherwise in all Courts of Justice.

The Corporation may acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description, and may sell, exchange, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any movable or immovable property so acquired, purchased, taken or held or otherwise vested in the Corporation upon such terms as to the Corporation shall seem fit.