(1)  A body corporate's common seal must include the name of the body corporate.

(2)  The seal is not to be affixed to a document unless its use has been authorised by a resolution of the body corporate or its committee of management and its affixation must be attested by at least 2 members of the body corporate (unless there is only one member, in which case the affixation of the seal must be attested by that member).

(3)  The body corporate must take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised use of the seal.

(4)  If a document appears to bear the common seal of a body corporate and the affixation of the seal appears to have been attested as required by this section –

(a) a person dealing with the body corporate without notice of irregularity is entitled to assume that the seal was duly affixed; and

(b) in any legal proceedings or proceedings before an official of the government or a council, it is to be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the seal was duly affixed.

(5)  This section is not to be taken to imply that a body corporate cannot act through agents and without the use of its seal.