APPENDIX ©
Extract from Law of Property Act,
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"SECTION 74
(1) In favour of a purchaser a deed shall be deemed to have been
duly executed by a corporation aggregate if its seal be affixed
thereto in the presence of and attested by its clerk, secretary or
other permanent officer or his deputy, and a member of the board
of directors, council or other governing body of the corporation,
and where a seal purporting to be the seal of a corporation has
been affixed to a deed, attested by persons purporting to be
persons holding such offices as aforesaid, the deed shall be deemed
to have been executed in accordance with the requirements of
this section, and to have taken effect accordingly.

(2) The board of directors, council or other governing body of a
corporation aggregate may, by resolution or otherwise, appoint an
agent either generally or in any particular case, to execute on
behalf of the corporation any agreement or other instrument not
under seal in relation to anv matter within the powers of the cor-
poration.

(3) Where a person is authorised under a power of attorney or
under any statutory or other power to convey any interest in
property in the name or on behalf of a corporation sole or aggre-
gate, he may as attorney execute the conveyance by signing the
name of the corporation in the presence of at least one witness,
and in the case of a deed by affixing his own seal, and such execu-
tion shall take effect and be valid in like manner as if the corpora-
tion had executed the conveyance.

(4) Where a corporation aggregate is authorised under a power
of attorney or under any statutory or other power to convey any
interest in property in the name or on behalf of any other person
(including another corporation), an officer appointed for that pur-
pose by the board of directors, council or other governing body
of the corporation by resolution or otherwise, may execute the
deed or other instrument in the name of such other person; and
where an instrument appears to be executed by an officer so
appointed, then in favour of a purchaser the instrument shall be
deemed to have been executed bv an officer dulv authorised

Execution of
instruments
by or on
behalf of
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