Common Seal is a metallic seal usually containing the name/ logo/ place/ registration number of the Company. It is used as a Signature of the Company. Table A of Schedule I of the Companies Act contains the standard set of Articles of Association of the Company Limited by shares. Provisions relating to the common seal of the company were provided in Regulation 84

• The Board shall provide for the safe custody of the seal.
• The seal of the company shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the Board or of a committee of the Board authorized by it in that behalf, and except in the presence of at least two directors and of the secretary or such other person as the Board may appoint for the purpose and those two directors and the secretary or other person aforesaid shall sign every instrument to which the seal of the company is so affixed in their presence