Victorian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

Commonwealth Games Arrangements Act 2001 - SECT 25A

The Secretary is a body corporate

25A. The Secretary is a body corporate





(1) The person who is for the time being the Department Head (within the
meaning of the Public Administration Act 2004) of the Department for Victorian
Communities and the successors in office of that person are a body corporate
under the name "Secretary to the Department for Victorian Communities" which,
by that name-

   (a)  has perpetual succession;

   (b)  has an official seal;

   (c)  may sue and be sued;

   (d)  may acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property;

   (e)  may do and suffer all things that a body corporate may, by law, do and
        suffer.

(2) The official seal of the Secretary must be kept as directed by the
Secretary and must not be used except as authorised by the Secretary.

(3) All courts must take judicial notice of the official seal of the Secretary
on a document and, until the contrary is proved, must presume that the seal
was properly affixed.