Singapore legislation
Clause 5
Clause 5
Common seal and execution of documents
(1)
The Authority shall have a common seal and such seal may from time to time 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 shall be sealed with the common seal of the Authority and every instrument to which the common seal is affixed shall be signed by an officer of the Authority and shall be countersigned by a member of the Authority or by some other person duly authorised in writing by the Authority for that purpose, and such signing shall be sufficient evidence that such seal was duly and properly affixed and that the seal is the lawful seal of the Authority.
(3)
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.
(4)
Section 12 of the Registration of Deeds Act [Cap. 269] shall not apply to an instrument purporting to have been executed under subsection (2).