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Version No. 001
Yooralla Society of Victoria Act 1977
Act No. 8980/1977
Version incorporating amendments as at 21 August 2001
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1. Short title and commencement 2
2. Definitions 2
3. Appointed day 3
4. Amalgamation of Yooralla and Victorian Society 3
5. Gifts, trusts, wills etc. 4
6. Yooralla Society not required to lodge returns of directors, etc.,
under Corporations Act 5
7. Yooralla Society deemed to be registered 5
8. Repealed 5
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ENDNOTES 6
1. General Information 6
2. Table of Amendments 7
3. Explanatory Details 8
Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1
Version No. 001
Yooralla Society of Victoria Act 1977
Act No. 8980/1977
Version incorporating amendments as at 21 August 2001
An Act to facilitate and effect the amalgamation of the Yooralla
Hospital School for Crippled Children and of the Victorian
Society for Crippled Children and Adults, and to establish the
Yooralla Society of Victoria, a company limited by guarantee,
as their successor in law, to amend the Hospitals and Charities
Act 1958 and for other purposes.
Preamble
WHEREAS the Yooralla Hospital School for
Crippled Children is an incorporated institution
within the meaning of the Hospitals and Charities
Act 1958:
AND WHEREAS the Victorian Society for
Crippled Children and Adults is a company within
the meaning of the Companies Act 1961 limited
by guarantee:
AND WHEREAS the Yooralla Hospital School for
Crippled Children and the Victorian Society for
Crippled Children and Adults have severally and
jointly determined that it is in the interest of each
of them and of disabled children and adults and of
the public generally that the Yooralla Hospital
School and the Victorian Society amalgamate their
respective activities with a view to ensuring that a
complete and integrated service to disabled
children and adults is provided in Victoria by a
single entity:
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AND WHEREAS it is expedient to effect that
amalgamation by dissolving the Yooralla Hospital
School for Crippled Children and the Victorian
Society for Crippled Children and Adults and
transferring their activities to the Yooralla Society
of Victoria, a company within the meaning of the
Companies Act 1961 limited by guarantee:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria
in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of
the same as follows (that is to say):
1. Short title and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Yooralla Society of
Victoria Act 1977.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on the day on
which it receives the Royal Assent.
2. Definitions
In this Act, unless the contrary intention
appears—
"appointed day" means the day fixed by
proclamation under section 3;
"property" includes real and personal property of
any description whether legal or equitable
and includes every estate or interest in
property;
"Victorian Society" means the Victorian Society
for Crippled Children and Adults, a company
within the meaning of the Companies Act
1961, limited by guarantee;
"will" includes codicil and any other testamentary
disposition;
s. 1
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"Yooralla" means the Yooralla Hospital School
for Crippled Children, an incorporated
institution within the meaning of the
Hospitals and Charities Act 1958;
"Yooralla Society" means the Yooralla Society
of Victoria, a company within the meaning
of the Companies Act 1961 limited by
guarantee.
3. Appointed day1
The Governor in Council may, by Order published
in the Government Gazette, appoint a day for the
purposes of this Act.
4. Amalgamation of Yooralla and Victorian Society
(1) On the appointed day—
(a) Yooralla shall be dissolved and the Yooralla
Society shall be the successor in law of
Yooralla; and
(b) the Victorian Society shall be dissolved and
the Yooralla Society shall be the successor in
law of the Victorian Society.
(2) Without affecting the generality of sub-section
(1), on the appointed day—
(a) the property which, immediately before the
appointed day, was vested in Yooralla shall,
by reason of this Act, be transferred to and
vest in the Yooralla Society;
(b) the property which, immediately before the
appointed day, was vested in the Victorian
Society shall, by reason of this Act, be
transferred to and vest in the Yooralla
Society; and
(c) all contracts deeds bonds agreements debts
liabilities securities duties and obligations
and all powers authorities immunities rights
s. 3
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and privileges of Yooralla or of the Victorian
Society made by or with or vested in
exerciseable by or imposed or binding upon
or available in Yooralla or the Victorian
Society immediately before the appointed
day shall be deemed to be the contracts
deeds bonds agreements debts liabilities
securities duties obligations powers
authorities immunities rights and privileges
of the Yooralla Society and shall be
enforceable or exerciseable by or against the
Yooralla Society as fully and effectually as
they would have been by or against Yooralla
or the Victorian Society if this Act had not
been enacted.
(3) All property which immediately before the
appointed day was vested in Yooralla or the
Victorian Society shall, on the appointed day, vest
in the Yooralla Society without necessity for any
conveyance transfer or other assurance of
property.
5. Gifts, trusts, wills etc.
On and after the appointed day—
(a) a donation, gift, disposition or trust of
property made or declared whether by deed
or otherwise (other than by a will) before the
appointed day; and
(b) a bequest, disposition or trust of property
under a will made before the appointed day
(whether or not the testator died before that
day)—
shall have effect, unless a contrary intention is
expressly declared, as if—
(c) a reference in the deed or other instrument or
declaration or in the will to Yooralla were a
reference to the Yooralla Society; and
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(d) a reference in the deed or other instrument or
declaration or in the will to the Victorian
Society were a reference to the Yooralla
Society.
6. Yooralla Society not required to lodge returns of
directors, etc., under Corporations Act
Yooralla Society is declared to be an excluded
matter for the purposes of section 5F of the
Corporations Act in relation to section 205B of
the Corporations Act.
Note: This section ensures that section 205B (Notice of
name and address of directors and secretaries to
ASIC) of the Corporations Act will not apply in
relation to Yooralla Society. Section 5F of the
Corporations Act provides that if a State law declares
a matter to be an excluded matter in relation to
specified provisions of the Corporations legislation,
then those provisions will not apply in relation to that
matter in the State concerned.
7. Yooralla Society deemed to be registered
The Yooralla Society shall be deemed to be an
institution within the meaning of the Hospitals
and Charities Act 1958 and to have been
registered under that Act on the appointed day.
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S. 6
substituted by
No. 44/2001
s. 3(Sch.
item 130).
s. 6
S. 8
repealed by
No. 9863
s. 2(Sch).
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ENDNOTES
1. General Information
The Yooralla Society of Victoria Act 1977 was assented to on 3 May 1977
and came into operation on 3 May 1977: section 1(2).
Endnotes
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2. Table of Amendments
This Version incorporates amendments made to the Yooralla Society of
Victoria Act 1977 by Acts and subordinate instruments.
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Statute Law Revision (Repeals) Act 1982, No. 9863/1982
Assent Date: 5.1.83
Commencement Date: 5.1.83: s. 1(2)
Current State: All of Act in operation
Corporations (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001, No. 44/2001
Assent Date: 27.6.01
Commencement Date: S. 3(Sch. item 130) on 15.7.01: s. 2
Current State: This information relates only to the provision/s
amending the Yooralla Society of Victoria Act 1977
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Endnotes
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3. Explanatory Details
1 S. 3: "Appointed day" 1 July 1977: Government Gazette 8 June 1977
page 1575.
Endnotes