Singapore legislation

Clause 4

of Public Utilities Ordinance

Clause 4

Common seal

(1)

The Board shall have a common seal and such seal may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as to the Board seems fit, and, until a seal is provided under this section, a stamp bearing the inscription “Public Utilities Board, Singapore” may be used as the common seal.

(2)

All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the Board shall be sealed with the common seal of the Board by the authority of the Board in the presence of the General Manager and of some other person duly authorised by the Board to act in that behalf and shall be signed by the General Manager and by such duly authorised person, and such signing shall be sufficient evidence that the common seal of the Board has been duly and properly affixed and that the said seal is the lawful common seal of the Board.

(3)

The Board may by resolution or otherwise appoint an officer of the Board or any other agent either generally or in a particular case to execute or sign on behalf of the Board any agreement or other instrument not under seal in relation to any matter coming within the powers of the Board.

(4)

The provisions of section 12 of the Registration of Deeds Ordinance (Cap. 255) shall not apply to any instrument purporting to have been executed under the provisions of subsection (2) of this section.

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