Clause 3

There shall be constituted a body to be known as the “National Statistical Commission of Singapore” which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, which may sue and be sued in its corporate name and perform such other acts as bodies corporate may by law perform.

The common seal of the Commission may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the Commission thinks fit.

All deeds, documents or other instruments requiring the seal of the Commission shall be sealed with the common seal of the Commission in the presence of the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman and one other member of the Commission who shall sign every such deed, document or other instrument to which the common seal is affixed and such signing shall be sufficient evidence that the seal was duly and properly affixed and that the same is the lawful seal of the Commission.

The Commission shall be exempt from the payment of stamp duty under any written law in force requiring payment of such duty.

The income of the Commission shall be exempt from tax.