6Power of body corporate

6 Power of body corporate

[Section 6 Amended by No. 36 of 1958, s. 5 ][Section 6 Substituted by No. 12 of 2005, s. 9, Applied:06 May 2005]

(1)  The body corporate has all the powers of a natural person, including (without limitation) the power –

(a) to purchase, take on lease or acquire by gift, devise, bequest, exchange or otherwise any real or personal property; and

(b) to conduct any commercial activities which are, or may be, for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Church or of any order, congregation, community or association of the Roman Catholic Church; and

(c) by itself, or by a person authorised in writing in that behalf under its common seal, to deal with and dispose of money, choses in action and choses in possession at any time vested in it or in any person on its behalf; and

(d) by itself, or by a person authorised in writing in that behalf under its common seal, to draw, make, accept, endorse and discount promissory notes, bills of exchange and other negotiable or transferable securities or instruments; and

(e) to do and perform all acts, matters and things and make and execute all contracts, documents, writings and assurances that in its opinion are, or may be, for its benefit or the benefit of the Roman Catholic Church; and

(f) to borrow money on the security of personal property or without security on any terms and conditions as the body corporate considers desirable; and

(g) in respect of real and personal property outside Tasmania at any time vested in or owned by it, to delegate by writing under its common seal to an attorney all or any of the powers conferred by this section; and

(h) to execute any document and to do any other thing the execution or doing of which, in its opinion, is necessary or convenient to achieve its objects.

(2)  The Archbishop, on any terms and conditions and in any manner as he thinks fit, may direct the sale, lease, exchange, mortgage or other disposition of any property vested in the body corporate, and may alter or revoke the direction.

(3)  This section does not authorise the sale, lease or other disposition of any part of a cemetery or place for the interment of the dead which may be vested in the Roman Catholic Church in Tasmania, or in any person or persons in trust for that Church, in which any interment may have taken place.