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This Act may be cited as the Royal Society Act 1911 .
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Tasmania act
This Act creates the Royal Society of Tasmania as a legal corporation that can sue and be sued, hold and sell land and personal property, and use a common seal. It also lets members set the Society’s internal rules for governance, membership and property management. Members decide governance and rule-making; the Society (through its assets) bears costs of owning property or bringing legal actions; compliance is largely internal rule-following, with member-made rules shaping behaviour and administrative discretion.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Royal Society Act 1911.
This Act may be cited as the Royal Society Act 1911 .
[Section 2 Repealed by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]
*[Section 3 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]*All persons who are now or who may hereafter become members of the Royal Society of Tasmania are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the "The Royal Society of Tasmania" (hereinafter referred to as "the said Society"), by which name such body corporate shall have perpetual succession, and be capable in law to sue and be sued in all courts and to take, purchase, and hold land and personal estate, and to alienate the same for any estate, term, or interest; and such body corporate shall have a common seal.
[Section 4 Repealed by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]
*[Section 5 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]*The members of the said Society, or a majority of the members present at a meeting duly convened in that behalf according to the rules of the said Society, and entitled under such rules to vote at such meeting, may make such rules as to them shall seem meet and proper in respect of –
(a) the election of executive officers or an executive body, and the functions, powers, duties, and proceedings of any executive officers or executive body;
(b) the election or admission of members of the said Society, and the expulsion of members;
(c) the proceedings of the said Society and the management and superintendence of its affairs and business, and regulating all matters concerning or connected with the property, both real and personal, of the said Society –
and generally for the purposes of this Act.
[Section 6 Repealed by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]
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This Act may be cited as the Royal Society Act 1911 .
[Section 2 Repealed by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]
*[Section 3 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]*All persons who are now or who may hereafter become members of the Royal Society of Tasmania are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the "The Royal Society of Tasmania" (hereinafter referred to as "the said Society"), by which name such body corporate shall have perpetual succession, and be capable in law to sue and be sued in all courts and to take, purchase, and hold land and personal estate, and to alienate the same for any estate, term, or interest; and such body corporate shall have a common seal.
[Section 4 Repealed by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]
*[Section 5 Amended by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]*The members of the said Society, or a majority of the members present at a meeting duly convened in that behalf according to the rules of the said Society, and entitled under such rules to vote at such meeting, may make such rules as to them shall seem meet and proper in respect of –
(a) the election of executive officers or an executive body, and the functions, powers, duties, and proceedings of any executive officers or executive body;
(b) the election or admission of members of the said Society, and the expulsion of members;
(c) the proceedings of the said Society and the management and superintendence of its affairs and business, and regulating all matters concerning or connected with the property, both real and personal, of the said Society –
and generally for the purposes of this Act.
[Section 6 Repealed by 25 Geo. V No. 78 ]