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CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 1.5.7

Signing company documents

    A company's power to sign, discharge and otherwise deal with contracts, or execute documents, can be exercised by an individual acting with the company's authority and on its behalf. A company can deal with contracts without using a common seal.

    A company may execute a document by having it signed by:

  2 directors of the company; or

  a director and the company secretary; or

  for a company with a sole director who is also the sole secretary--that director; or

  for a company with a sole director and no company secretary--that director.

    If the document is to have effect as a deed, it should be expressed to be a deed.

[sections   126--127]

    A company is not required to have a common seal. If it does, the seal must show the company's name and its ACN or ABN (if the last 9 digits are the same, and in the same order, as the last 9 digits of its ACN). The seal is equivalent to the company's signature and may be used on important company documents such as mortgages.

[sections   123, 127(2)]



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