4Council of Law Reporting

4 Council of Law Reporting

(1)  There is constituted by this Act a body corporate with the corporate name of the Council of Law Reporting for Tasmania.

(2)  The Council –

(a) has perpetual succession; and

(b) shall have a common seal; and

(c) may take proceedings, and be proceeded against, in its corporate name; and

(d) may do and be subject to all things that corporations may by law do and be subject to and that are necessary for, or incidental to, the purpose for which it was constituted; and

(e) has the functions imposed, and the powers conferred, on it by or under this Act.

(3)  All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the common seal of the Council affixed to a document and, unless the contrary is established, shall presume that it was duly affixed.