Estate Agents Act 2010 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Council for Estate Agencies
7. Common seal
Feedback & supportThe Council must have a common seal and such seal may be broken, changed, altered or made anew as the Council thinks fit.
Council
“Council” means the Council for Estate Agencies established under section 6;
All deeds and other documents requiring the seal of the Council must be sealed with the common seal of the Council.
Every instrument to which the common seal is affixed must be signed by any 2 members generally or specially authorised by the Council for the purpose, or by one member and the Executive Director.
Executive Director
“Executive Director” means the chief executive of the Council called the Executive Director, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;
The Council may, by resolution or otherwise in writing, appoint any officer of the Council or any other agent either generally or in any particular case to execute or sign on behalf of the Council any agreement or other instrument not under seal in relation to any matter within the powers of the Council.
writing
“writing” includes any mode of representing or reproducing words, figures, drawings or symbols in a visible form.
All courts, judges and persons acting judicially are to take judicial notice of the common seal of the Council affixed to any document and presume that it was duly affixed.
document
“document” includes, in addition to a document in writing —(a)any map, plan, graph or drawing;(b)any photograph;(c)any label, marking or other writing which identifies or describes anything of which it forms a part, or to which it is attached by any means;(d)any disc, tape, soundtrack or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced from it;(e)any film (including microfilm), negative, tape, disc or other device in which one or more visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced from it; and(f)any paper or other material on which there are marks, impressions, figures, letters, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them;