Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsSigning of documents under this Act
(1) This Division applies to a document (including a deed) required or permitted to be signed by a person under this Act.
Note 1: A document is any record of information: see the definition of document in section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .
Note 2: This Division provides that a person may sign a document in physical form or electronic form: see subsection 110A(1).
Signing of documents by or on behalf of company
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), this Division applies to a document (including a deed) to be signed by a person:
(a) exercising the powers of a company under section 126 (making of contracts and execution of documents by an agent); or
(b) under section 127 (execution of documents by a company).
Other ways of signing documents not limited
(4) This Division does not limit the ways in which a person may sign a document (including a deed).
Note: For example, a company's constitution may set out ways in which a document (including a deed) may be executed or signed in addition to the ways a document (including a deed) may be executed in accordance with sections 126 and 127 or signed in accordance with this Division.