5Objects and powers

5 Objects and powers

5 Objects and powers

It shall be lawful for the body corporate—

(a) To engage in the preparation, manufacture, cultivation, distribution, and sale, either in Australia or elsewhere, of the vaccine known as the McGarvie Smith Vaccine, and of any other vaccine, medicine, or preparation which the trustees may think fit.

(b) To promote and advance, either alone or in conjunction with any other person or body corporate, or with the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, veterinary science and the sciences of pathology, microbiology, parasitology, or any allied science, so far as they relate to veterinary science, and to engage in the promotion of scientific research and the equipment of laboratories in New South Wales or elsewhere in such manner and at such cost as the trustees may from time to time determine.

(c) To take or accept any gift, subsidy, or endowment, whether subject to any special trust or not, for all or any of the objects of the body corporate and to carry out any special trust to which such gift, subsidy, or endowment may be subject according to the terms thereof.

(d) To promote the passing of or enforcing or to join with any person or body corporate in having passed or enforced any legislation having for its object the promotion of the purposes for which the body corporate is established.

(e) To apply for and take out, purchase or otherwise acquire, any patents, patent rights, or inventions, copyright, or process, whether in Australia or elsewhere, which in the opinion of the trustees may be useful for the purposes of the body corporate, and to grant licences to use the same.

(f) To open and carry on branches and agencies for the purposes of the body corporate in any part of the world.

(g) To enter into any arrangement with any Government or other authority, whether in New South Wales or elsewhere, and to obtain from such authority any rights, concessions, charters, or privileges that may be thought conducive to the purposes of the body corporate.

(h) To amalgamate with any company or person on such terms as they may deem expedient or to acquire and carry on the business of any company, association, firm, or person having objects similar to those of the body corporate or whose business can be carried on in connection with that of the body corporate whether in New South Wales or elsewhere.