Statewide Treaty Act 2025
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11 Common seal
(1) The common seal of Gellung Warl—
(a) must be kept in custody in accordance with the internal rules; and
(b) must not be used except as authorised by the internal rules.
(2) All courts must take judicial notice of the common seal of Gellung Warl affixed to a document and, until the contrary is proved, must presume that it was duly affixed.
(3) The Chief Executive Officer may execute a deed or other instrument without using the common seal if the deed or other instrument is signed by—
(a) the Chief Executive Officer; and
(b) a Gellung Warl official specified in the internal rules as authorised to sign.
(4) The Electronic Transactions (Victoria) Act 2000 applies to a deed or other instrument executed under this section as if in section 12A(1) of that Act, for "signed, sealed and delivered" there were substituted "signed and delivered" and as if a reference to "deed" included a reference to "or other instrument".