Commonwealth Numbered Acts

WHEAT MARKETING ACT 1979 No. 166 of 1979 - SECT 6

PART II-AUSTRALIAN WHEAT BOARD
6. (1) The Australian Wheat Board that was, immediately before the
commencement of this Act, in existence by virtue of the Wheat Industry
Stabilization Act 1974 is, by force of this section and subject to this Act,
continued in existence for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The Board is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal,
and may acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property and is capable
of suing and being sued in its corporate name.

(3) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially-

   (a)  shall take judicial notice of the common seal of the Board affixed to
        a document and shall presume that it was duly affixed; and

   (b)  shall take judicial notice of the signature of a person who is or has
        been the Chairman of the Board and of the fact that he is or was the
        Chairman.

(4) The exercise or performance of a power or function by the Board is not
invalidated by reason only of a vacancy or vacancies in the membership of the
Board.

(5) A notice, authority, communication or instrument given or made by the
Board shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by the Chairman on behalf
of the Board, and a notice, authority, communication or instrument so signed
shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to have been given
or made with the authority of the Board.