4Director-General to be corporation sole

4 Director-General to be corporation sole

4 Director-General to be corporation sole

(1) For the purposes of the exercise and discharge of the powers, authorities, duties, functions and obligations conferred and imposed upon the Director-General by this Act, the Director-General is hereby declared to be a corporation sole under the name of “The Director-General of the Attorney General’s Department”.

The said corporation sole shall have perpetual succession and an official seal and may in the corporate name sue and be sued and shall be capable of purchasing, holding, granting, demising, disposing of and alienating real and personal property and of doing and suffering all such other acts and things as a body corporate may by law do and suffer.

(2) The assets of the Fund shall be vested in the said corporation sole.

(3) Where any property real or personal or the interest therein or charge thereon is vested in or is acquired by the said corporation sole, the same shall unless otherwise disposed of by the said corporation sole pass to and devolve on and vest in its successors.

(4) The seal of the said corporation sole shall not be affixed to any instrument or writing except in the presence, or by the direction, of the Director-General who shall attest by the Director-General’s signature the fact and date of the seal being so affixed.

(5) The appointment of the Director-General and the Director-General’s official seal shall be judicially noticed.

(6) (Repealed)

s 4: Am 1959 No 20, sec 2 (b); 1987 No 249, Sch 1 (3).