(1) There is hereby established a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, capable in law of holding land, of suing and being sued and of doing and suffering all acts matters and things which bodies corporate may by law do or suffer.
S. 3(2) amended by No. 97/1997
s. 8(1).
(2) The name of the body corporate shall be "Epworth Foundation".
(3) The body corporate shall consist of the Board of Management.
(4) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the common seal of the body corporate affixed to a document and until the contrary is proved shall presume that it was duly affixed.
S. 3(5) inserted by No. 97/1997
s. 8(2).
(5) Despite the change of name made by section 8 of the Epworth Hospital (Amendment) Act 1997 , the Foundation is the same body after the commencement of that section as it was before that commencement.
S. 4 substituted by No. 97/1997
s. 9.