Section 3, The Public Procurement Act, 2016

(1) Subject to this Act, there is hereby continued inexistence, the body which immediately before the commencement of this Act, was known as the National Public Procurement Authority. (2) The Authority shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and capable of acquiring, holding and disposing of any 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 Authority shall have a common seal, the use of which shall be authenticated by the signatures of – (a) the Chairman or other member of the Board authorised either generally or specially by the Board in that behalf; and (b) the Chief Executive or some other person authorised by the Board in that behalf.