Singapore legislation
Section 5
Section 5
Common seal and execution of documents
(1)
The Authority must have a common seal that may be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the Authority thinks fit.
(2)
All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the Authority must be sealed with the common seal of the Authority and every instrument to which the common seal is affixed must be —
signed by an officer of the Authority; and
countersigned by a member of the Authority or by some other person duly authorised in writing by the Authority for that purpose.
(3)
The signing in subsection (2)(a) and (b) is sufficient evidence that the common seal was duly and properly affixed and that the seal is the lawful seal of the Authority.
(4)
The Authority may by resolution or otherwise in writing appoint an officer of the Authority or any other agent either generally or in a particular case to execute or sign on behalf of the Authority an agreement or other instrument not under seal in relation to any matter coming within the powers of the Authority.
(5)
Section 11 of the Registration of Deeds Act 1988 does not apply to an instrument purporting to have been executed under subsection (2).