Singapore legislation

Section 4

of Agency for Science, Technology and Research Act 1990

Section 4

Common seal

(1)

The Agency must have a common seal and such seal may be broken, altered or made anew as the Agency thinks fit.

(2)

All deeds and other documents requiring the seal of the Agency must be sealed with the common seal of the Agency in the presence of, and be signed by —

(a)

the Chairperson or a Deputy Chairperson of the Agency; and

(b)

an employee of the Agency who is authorised by resolution or otherwise in writing (either generally or specially) to act in that behalf.

(3)

Such signing is sufficient evidence that the common seal of the Agency has been duly and properly affixed and that the seal is the lawful common seal of the Agency.

(4)

All courts, judges and persons acting judicially are to take judicial notice of the common seal of the Agency affixed to any document and presume that it was duly affixed.

(5)

The Agency may, by resolution or otherwise in writing, appoint an employee of the Agency or any other agent (either generally or specially) to execute or sign on behalf of the Agency any agreement or other instrument not under seal in relation to any matter coming within the powers of the Agency.

(6)

Section 11 of the Registration of Deeds Act 1988 does not apply to any instrument purporting to have been executed under subsection (2).