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64. Formalities for deeds.

(1) Any rule of law which requires -

(a) a seal for the valid execution of a deed by an individual, or

(b) authority to deliver a deed to be given by deed,

is abolished.

(2) An instrument executed after the commencement of this Chapter is a deed if it is -

(a) described at its head by words such as "Assignment", "Conveyance", "Charge", "Deed", "Indenture", "Lease", "Mortgage", "Surrender" or other heading appropriate to the deed in question, or it is otherwise made clear on its face that it is intended by the person making it, or the parties to it, to be a deed, by expressing it to be executed or signed as a deed,

(b) executed in the following manner:

(i) if made by an individual -

(I) it is signed by the individual in the presence of a witness who attests the signature, or

(II) it is signed by a person at the individual's direction given in the presence of a witness who attests the signature, or

(III) the individual's signature is acknowledged by him or her in the presence of a witnes

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