Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Act 2021 (82 of 2021)

Schedule 1   Virtual meetings and electronic communication of documents

Part 1   Main amendments

Corporations Act 2001

9   At the end of subsection 129(6)

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Note: The circumstances in which a document is taken to have been executed by affixing the common seal of a company in accordance with subsection 127(2) is affected by subsection 127(2A). Subsection 127(2A) allows for a witness to observe by electronic means the affixing of the common seal of a company to a document. However, the witness must sign the document. The circumstances in which a person is taken to sign a document by signing a copy or counterpart of the document are set out in subsections 127(3A) to (3C).