153Asbestos Compensation Commissioner

153 Asbestos Compensation Commissioner

(1)  The Minister may appoint a person to be the Asbestos Compensation Commissioner.

(2)  The Commissioner –

(a) is a corporation sole; and

(b) has a seal; and

(c) may sue and be sued in his or her corporate name.

(3)  The seal is to be kept and used as authorised by the Commissioner.

(4)  All courts and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the imprint of the seal on a document and presume that it was duly sealed by the Commissioner.

(5)  All courts and persons acting judicially are to take judicial notice of –

(a) the official signature of a person who is or has been the Commissioner; and

(b) the fact that the person holds or has held the office of Commissioner.

(6)  Schedule 2 has effect in relation to the Commissioner.