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In forceCouncil as body corporate
Chapter 4Council and its members
Part 4.1Council as body corporate
Division 1Corporate nature, capacity and powers of council
37 Council as body corporate
(1)
A council:
(a)
is a body corporate with perpetual succession; and
(b)
has a common seal; and
(c) is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real property (including leasehold) and personal property and of suing and being sued.
(2) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially are to take judicial notice of the common seal of a council affixed to a document and are to assume that it was duly affixed.
(3)
A council has the name assigned to it under section 16(1)(i).
(4) A council has the functions and powers conferred by this Act or another Act.
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