Section 44
Incorporation
Every board and every corporation shall be a body corporate by such name as shall be specified by the appropriate authority in the order by which such board or corporation is established and shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in such name and may do all other matters and things incidental or appertaining to a body corporate not inconsistent with this Act and subject to such restrictions or limitations as may be prescribed by the appropriate authority by the order by which such board or corporation is established.
(2)
Every such board and corporation shall have a common seal, which shall bear such device as the board or corporation, as the case may be, with the approval of the appropriate authority, may approve, and such seal may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew by the board or corporation with the approval of the appropriate authority, as the board or corporation shall think fit.
(3)
Until a seal is provided by a board or corporation under this section a stamp bearing the name of the board or corporation may be used as a common seal.
(4)
The common seal, or the stamp referred to in subsection (3)
so long as it is used as the common seal, shall be in the custody of such person as the board or corporation shall direct and all deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of such board or corporation shall be sealed with the seal or stamp of such board or corporation in the presence of such persons as the board or corporation, as the case may be, with the approval of the appropriate authority, shall direct, who shall sign every such deed, document or other instrument to which such seal or stamp is affixed and such signing shall be sufficient evidence that such seal or stamp was duly and properly affixed and that the same is or is used as the lawful seal of such board or corporation.
(5)
The seal or stamp of every board or corporation shall be officially and judicially noticed.
(6)
(Deleted by L.N. 477 of 1965).
Act 474