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12. Protection of use of seal and registered name of credit union.

(1) The seal of a credit union shall be used only under the authority of a resolution of the board of directors and shall be attested by the signatures of two directors of the credit union and the countersignature of the secretary for the time being.

(2) Any officer of a credit union, or any other person acting on a credit union's behalf, who -

(a) uses any seal purporting to be a seal of the credit union which does not have the credit union's registered name engraved on it in legible characters, or

(b) issues or authorises the issue of any document such as is mentioned in paragraph (a), paragraph (b) or paragraph (d) of subsection (6) of section 10 in which that name is not set out in legible characters, or

(c) signs or authorises to be signed on behalf of the credit union any document such as is mentioned in paragraph (c) of that subsection in which that name is not so set out,

shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), any person, other than a credit union, who -

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