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Section 56: Execution of documents: presumption of validity of officer's signature

Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 · 2014 c. 14View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4: A society's capacity and related matters

This section applies to a document—

by which a contract is purportedly made, varied or discharged by or on behalf of a registered society, and
which is purportedly signed by a person holding an office in the society.

The signature is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, to be the signature of a person holding that office at the time the signature was made.

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