Incorporation of school representative body
106 Incorporation of school representative body
A school representative body:
(a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and
(b) except for a joint school representative body, is capable in its corporate name, subject to the regulations, of:
entering into agreements; and
(ii) acquiring, holding, dealing with and disposing of real and personal property; and
is capable of suing and being sued in its corporate name.
(2) A school representative body must adopt the model constitution published under section 108(3) (with variations in particulars as mentioned in section 108(4)) as the constitution of the body at any time on or after its establishment.
(3) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the common seal of a school representative body affixed to a document and are to presume that it was duly affixed.
A school representative body:
represents the Territory; and
(b) enjoys the privileges, rights or immunities of the Crown in right of the Territory; and
is within the shield of the Crown in right of the Territory.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
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