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AND FOR INCIDENTAL AND CONNECTED PURPOSES\nENACTED by the Legislature of the Cayman Islands.\n1.\nShort title\n1.\nThis Act may be cited as the Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act,\n2020.\n2.\nAmendment of section 8 of the Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act\n(2017 Revision) - deeds and certain other instruments no longer required to\nbe executed under seal\n2.\nThe Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (2017 Revision) is amended in section\n8 as follows \u2014\n(a)\nby inserting after subsection (4), the following subsection \u2014\n\u201c(4A) During the period commencing on the date of commencement of\nthe Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2020\nand ending on 16th April, 2022 or at such other date as Cabinet\nmay by Order appoint \u2014\n(Act 61 of 2020)\nI Assent,\nMartyn Roper\nGovernor\nDate: 6th day of January, 2021\n\nSection 2\nProperty (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2020\n\nPage 4\nAct 61 of 2020\nc\n\n(a)\nwhere an individual or another person, at the direction of the\nindividual or on behalf of the individual, signs a deed or\ninstrument in the virtual presence of a witness \u2014\n(i)\nthe witness must be able to contemporaneously view the\nsigning of the deed or instrument remotely; 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