(1) One of the copies of any document required to be prepared in accordance with this Part, except an auditors' report, shall be signed by persons described in paragraph (2) or (3).
(2) In respect of any document relating to business carried on through an Irish head office undertaking, the copy shall be signed by -
(a) in any case -
(i) where there are more than two directors of the undertaking, at least two of those directors and, where there are not more than two directors, all the directors; and
(ii) the chief executive, if any, of the undertaking or (if there is no chief executive) the secretary;
and
(b) in the case of an abstract or statement under Article 5, the actuary who made the investigation to which the abstract relates or by reference to which the statement was prepared.
(3) In respect of any document relating to business carried on through an agency or branch in the state by a Community branch undertaking, Community deposit undertaking or an External branch undertaki