Property Agents and Land Transactions Act 2016
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141 Property Agents Trust
(1) The body corporate that was continued as the Property Agents Trust under section 150(1) of the repealed Act is continued as a body corporate under that name for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Trust may have a seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.
(3) If the Trust has a seal –
(a) it is to be kept and used as authorised by the Trust; and
(b) all courts or persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the imprint of the seal on a document and presume that the document was duly sealed by the Trust.
(4) The Trust consists of –
(a) the Chair of the Trust appointed by the Governor; and
(b) two other members appointed by the Governor, one of whom is to be a representative of property agents, and the other being a person with wide knowledge of financial matters.
(5) The Chair of the Trust is not to be –
(a) a property agent; or
(b) a representative of property agents; or
(c) a member of the Board.
(6) Schedule 3 has effect with respect to the membership and meetings of the Trust.