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Establishment and incorporation of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
3. A body called the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore is established, which is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and is by that name capable of —(a) suing and being sued; (b) acquiring, owning, holding and developing or disposing of property, both movable and immovable; and (c) doing and suffering any other acts or things that a body corporate may lawfully do and suffer.
Common seal
4.—(1) The Office must have a common seal and the seal may be broken, changed, altered or made anew as the Office thinks fit. (2) All deeds and other documents requiring the seal of the Office must be sealed with the common seal of the Office. (3) All instruments to which the common seal is affixed must be signed by the Chief Executive and one officer of the Office or by any 2 officers of the Office generally or specially authorised by the Chief Executive for that purpose. (4) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially are to take notice of the common seal of the Office affixed to any document and presume that it was duly affixed.
Constitution of Office
5.—(1) The Office consists of —(a) a Chairperson; (b) a Deputy Chairperson; and (c) not less than 8 and not more than 20 other members as the Minister may determine. (2) The First Schedule has effect with respect to the Office, its members and its proceedings.
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