Section 2, The Environment Protection Agency Act, 2022

(1) There shall continue in existence, the body known asthe Environment Protection Agency. (2) The Agency shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession, a common seal and capable of acquiring, holding and disposing of property, whether movable or immovable, and of suing and being sued in its corporate name and, subject to this Act, of performing all such acts as bodies corporate may by law perform. (3) The Agency shall have a common seal, the use of which shall be authenticated by the signatures of the Executive Chairman or any other member of the board designated in that behalf by the Board- (a) the Chairman or other member of the Agency authorised either generally or specially by the Board for that purpose; and (b) the Executive Chairman or some other person authorised by the Board in that behalf. (4) Every document purporting to be an instrument executed or issued by or on behalf of the Agency and to be sealed with the common seal authenticated in the manner stated in subsection (3) shall be deemed to be so executed or issued without further proof unless the contrary is proved. (5) In appropriate cases the common seal of the Agency may be affixed to documents outside Sierra Leone.