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Strata Titles Act 1998
73Common seal
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### 73 Common seal
> > (1) A body corporate's common seal must include the name of the body corporate.
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> > (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).
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> > (3) The body corporate must take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised use of the seal.
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> > (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 –
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> > > > (a) a person dealing with the body corporate without notice of irregularity is entitled to assume that the seal was duly affixed; and
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> > > > (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.
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> > (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.