New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ACT 1982 - SECT 16

16 Foundation

(1) There is hereby constituted a Corporation with the corporate name “New South Wales Health Foundation”.

(2) The affairs of the Foundation shall be managed by the Minister.

(3) Any act, matter or thing done in the name of, or on behalf of, the Foundation by the Minister, or with the authority of the Minister, shall be deemed to have been done by the Foundation.

(4) The Foundation:

(a) has perpetual succession,

(b) shall have an official seal,

(c) may take proceedings, and be proceeded against, in its corporate name,

(d) subject to this Act, may, for the purposes for which it is constituted, purchase, exchange, take on lease, hold, dispose of and otherwise deal with property,

(e) may do and suffer all other things that a body corporate may, by law, do and suffer and that are necessary for or incidental to the purposes for which the Foundation is constituted, and

(f) is, for the purposes of any Act, a statutory body representing the Crown.

(5) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to:

(a) the custody and use of the seal of the Foundation, and

(b) the keeping of records concerning the acts, decisions and proceedings of the Foundation.

(6) All courts and persons acting judicially:

(a) shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Foundation that has been fixed to any instrument or document, and

(b) shall, until the contrary is proved, presume that the seal was properly affixed.