Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 - SECT 110

Signing 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.