Section 2, The Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission Act, 2011

(1) There is hereby established a body to be known asthe Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission. (2) The Commission shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession, a common seal, 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 Commission shall have a common seal the use of which shall be authenticated by the signatures of– (a) the Chairman or other member of the Commission generally or specifically authorised by the Commission for that purpose; and (b) the Secretary. (4) Every document purporting to be an instrument executed or issued by or on behalf of the Commission 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 other proof unless the contrary is proved. (5) In appropriate cases the common seal may be affixed to documents outside Sierra Leone.