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Soil Conservation Act 1938
4BCommissioner to be corporation sole for certain purposes
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#### 4B Commissioner to be corporation sole for certain purposes
4B Commissioner to be corporation sole for certain purposes
> > (1) The Commissioner is, for the purpose of exercising or performing those powers, authorities, duties or functions expressed to be conferred or imposed on the Corporation by or under this Act, hereby incorporated as a corporation sole with the corporate name “Soil Conservation Commission of New South Wales”.
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> > (2) The Corporation:
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> > > (a) has perpetual succession,
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> > > (b) shall have an official seal,
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> > > (c) may take proceedings, and be proceeded against, in its corporate name,
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> > > (d) may do and suffer all other things that a body corporate generally may, by law, do and suffer and that are necessary for or incidental to the purposes for which the Corporation is constituted, and
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> > > (e) is, for the purposes of any Act, a statutory body representing the Crown.
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> > (3) The seal of the Corporation shall be kept by the Commissioner and shall be affixed to an instrument or document only in the presence of the Commissioner, or a person for the time being authorised by the Commissioner for the purpose, who shall attest by his or her signature the fact and date of the affixing of the seal.
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> > (4) All courts and persons acting judicially:
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> > > (a) shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Corporation that has been affixed to any instrument or document, and
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> > > (b) shall, until the contrary is proved, presume that the seal was properly affixed.
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> **s 4B:** Ins 1980 No 11, Sch 1 (2).