http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/14/section/51Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to co-operative societies, community benefit societies and other societies registered or treated as registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-18Expert Participation2023-08-29Part 4A society's capacity and related matters<Emphasis>Seals</Emphasis>Power of society to have official seal for use abroad511This section applies to a registered society if—ait has a common seal, andbits objects require or comprise the transaction of business in foreign countries.2The society may, if authorised by its registered rules, have an official seal for use in any territory, district, or place outside the United Kingdom.3An “official seal” is a facsimile of the society's common seal with the addition on its face of the name of every territory, district or place where it is to be used.4The official seal, when duly affixed to a document, has the same effect as the society's common seal.
