Victorian Current Acts

DAIRY ACT 2000 - SECT 4

    (1)     There is established by this Act an Authority by the name of Dairy Food Safety Victoria.

    (2)     The Authority—

        (a)     is a body corporate with perpetual succession;

        (b)     is not to be deemed to represent the Crown in right of the State of Victoria;

        (c)     must have a common seal;

        (d)     may sue and be sued in its corporate name;

        (e)     is, subject to this Act, capable of taking, purchasing, leasing, holding, selling and disposing of real and personal property for the purpose of performing its functions and exercising its powers under this Act;

        (f)     is capable of doing and suffering all such acts and things as bodies corporate may by law do and suffer and which are necessary or expedient for the purpose of performing its functions and exercising its powers under this Act.

    (3)     The common seal of the Authority must be kept in such custody as the Authority directs and must not be used except as authorised by the Authority.

    (4)     All courts and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the seal of the Authority fixed to a document and must presume that it was duly affixed.