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TRANSPORT ACCIDENT ACT 1986 - SECT 10

Transport Accident Commission

    (1)     There is established by this Act a Commission by the name of the Transport Accident Commission.

    (2)     The Commission

        (a)     is a body corporate with perpetual succession; and

S. 10(2)(b) repealed by No. 28/2005 s. 30(1).

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

        (d)     is capable of acquiring, holding, dealing with or disposing of property for the purpose of performing its functions and exercising its powers; and

        (e)     is capable of doing and suffering all acts and things which bodies corporate may by law do and suffer and which are necessary or expedient for performing its functions and exercising its powers.

S. 10(3) substituted by No. 28/2005 s. 30(2).

    (3)     A document is executed by the Commission if the document is signed by—

        (a)     2 Directors of the Board of Management of the Commission; or

        (b)     1 Director of the Board of Management of the Commission and the person who is designated by the Board of Management of the Commission to be the Secretary to the Board of Management of the Commission.

S. 10(4) substituted by No. 28/2005 s. 30(2).

    (4)     A person may assume that a document has been duly executed by the Commission if the document appears to have been signed in accordance with subsection (3).

S. 10(5) inserted by No. 28/2005 s. 30(2).

    (5)     All courts, judges and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the signatures on a document which appears to have been signed in accordance with subsection (3).

S. 10A inserted by No. 84/2000 s. 6.



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