MSA Signed by Responsible Member
About the data
Signature
Section 13 of the Act requires statements given by single reporting entities to be signed by a responsible member of the reporting entity. Section 14 of the Act sets out the same requirement for joint statements. In case there is a joint statement, the signature of a responsible member of one reporting entity's governing body is sufficient.
Methodology
A responsible member is a decision-making member of the reporting entity. Where a reporting entity has a principal governing body, the responsible member will be a member of that body.
A statement cannot be signed by individuals who do not meet the definition of a responsible member.
It is important to ensure that the text accompanying the signature shows that the individual signing has the authority to sign the statement by including all the following information:
- The name of the responsible member;
- The title or position (e.g., CEO, Director, Member of the Board, Chairman, President, etc.) of the responsible member; and
- A copy of their signature (an image) OR wording to explicitly indicate the signature of the statement (e.g. "signed by", "signature", "s/", a signature ID, or any form of electronic signature).
For this criterion, we should also check for a signature date, if available.
Note: when extracting the supporting text for this criterion, if there are small segments of irrelevant formatting text.