Section 3, **The Sierra Leone Housing Corporation Act, 1982** [Margin: Short title.]

(1) The Corporation shall have a common seal and the affixing of the seal shall be authenticated by the signature of the Chairman or some other member of the Corporation authorised either generally or specially, by the Corporation to act for the purpose. (2) Every document purporting to be an order or instrument issued by the Corporation and to be sealed with the seal of the Corporation authenticated as provided by this section or to be signed by the Secretary, shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such order or instrument without further proof, unless the contrary is shown. (3) In appropriate cases the seal may be affixed to documents outside Sierra Leone. (4) Notwithstanding any rule of law to the contrary the Corporation may enter into contracts and transact business in all respects in the same manner as a private individual. [Margin: Constitution of the Board of Directors.]