Each public hospital, by operation of this Act—
(a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession; and
(b) shall have an official seal; and
(c) may sue and be sued in its corporate name; and
(d) is capable of purchasing, taking, holding, selling, leasing, taking on lease, exchanging and disposing of real and personal property; and
(e) is capable of doing and suffering all acts and things which bodies corporate may by law do or suffer.
S. 31A inserted by No. 53/1990 s. 8.