Corporations Act 2001

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTORY  

PART 1.2AA - SIGNING AND SENDING DOCUMENTS  

Division 1 - Technology neutral signing  

SECTION 110   WHEN THIS DIVISION APPLIES  

Signing of documents under this Act

110(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

110(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).

110(3)    
(Repealed by No 69 of 2023, s 3, Sch 1[4] (effective 15 September 2023).)

Other ways of signing documents not limited

110(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.