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(1)Any notice, order, consent, demand or other document which a council are authorised or required by or under this Act to give, make or issue may be signed on behalf of the council—
(a)by the proper officer of the council as respects documents relating to matters within his province; or
(b)by any officer of the council authorised by them in writing to sign documents of the particular kind or, as the case may be, the particular document.
(2)Any document purporting to bear the signature of an officer—
(a)expressed to hold an office by virtue of which he is under this section empowered to sign such a document, or
(b)expressed to be duly authorised by the council to sign such a document or the particular document,
shall for the purposes of this Act, and of any byelaws and orders made under it, be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have been duly given, made or issued by authority of the council.
In this subsection " signature " includes a facsimile of a signature by whatever process reproduced.