Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES (JUSTICE, LAND AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 5

5 Corporation

(1) The corporation sole preserved, continued in existence and constituted under the Community Services (Aborigines) Act 1984 under the name and style ‘The Corporation of the Under Secretary for Community Services’ is hereby further preserved, continued in existence and constituted under the name and style ‘Aboriginal and Islander Affairs Corporation’.

(2) The corporation is constituted by the person who at the material time holds the appointment, chief executive, and under the name and style assigned to it by subsection (1) —

(a) has perpetual succession and an official seal; and

(b) is capable in law of suing and being sued, of compounding or proving in a court of competent jurisdiction all debts and sums of money due to it; and

(c) is capable in law of acquiring and holding (absolutely or subject to trusts), letting, leasing, hiring, disposing of and otherwise dealing with property real and personal situated within or outside the State and of doing and suffering all such acts and things as bodies corporate may in law do and suffer.

(3) All courts, judges, justices and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the seal of the corporation affixed to any writing and, until the contrary is proved, shall presume that it was duly affixed thereto.

(4) With respect to the exercise of any of its powers and with respect to any matter arising in connection therewith the corporation has all the privileges, rights and remedies of the Crown.