Section 2, The National Minerals Agency Act, 2012

(1) There is hereby established a body to be known asthe National Minerals Agency. (2) The Agency shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and capable of acquiring, holding and disposing of any property whether moveable or immoveable, and suing and being sued in its own name and, subject to this Act, of performing all 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 – (a) the Chairman or other member of the Board generally or specifically authorized by the Board for that purpose; and (b) the Director-General or other officer of the Agency authorized by the Board for that purpose. (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 other proof unless the contrary is proved. (5) In appropriate cases the common seal may be affixed to documents outside Sierra Leone