Malaysia legislation
Section 7a
Seksyen 7a
(2)
The Law Society shall consist of the following:
(a)
the President;
(b)
the Vice-President;
(c)
the immediate past President;
(d)
the Secretary;
(e)
the Assistant Secretary;
(f)
the Treasurer; and
(g)
members pursuant to section 13b.
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(3)
The Law Society may sue or be sued in its corporate name.
(4)
Subject to and for the purposes of this Ordinance, the Law Society may, upon such terms as the Law
Society deems fit—
(a)
enter into contracts; and
(b)
in respect of movable and immovable property and interest in movable or immovable property of every description—
(i)
acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy such property; and
(ii)
convey, assign, surrender, yield up, charge, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, or deal with such property and interest vested in the Law Society.
(5)
The Constitution and rules of the Law Society shall be as set out in Part VI of this Ordinance.
Common seal. 7b. (1) The common seal of the Law Society shall bear a device as approved by the Law Society and the seal may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the Law Society thinks fit.
(2)
Until a seal is provided by the Law Society, a stamp bearing the words “Sabah Law Society” may be used and shall be deemed to be its common seal.
(3)
The common seal of the Law Society shall be kept in the custody of the President of the Law
Society or any other person authorized by the Law
Society, and shall be authenticated by either the
President of the Law Society or by such other person authorized by the President of the Law Society in writing.
Ordinan Peguam Bela (Sabah) (Pindaan)
(4)
All deeds, documents and other instruments of the Law Society purporting to be sealed with the common seal of the Law Society and authenticated in accordance with subsection (3) shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been validly executed.
(5)
Any deed, document and other instrument which, if executed by a person not being a body corporate, is not required to be under seal may in like manner be executed by a member of the Law Society or by any member of the Law Society authorized in that behalf.
(6)
The common seal of the Law Society shall be officially and judicially noticed.
(7)
Every document to which the common seal of the Law Society is affixed shall be signed by two members of the Law Society appointed by the
President of the Law Society in that behalf.
Annual
Certificate.