New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES' LANDS ACT 1942 - SECT 11

11 Additional powers of bodies corporate

(1) Every body corporate created by this Act shall have power from time to time to apply for and obtain representation of the estate of any deceased person being a member of the community for which such body corporate was constituted by this Act or being a person under whose will such community or such body corporate is a beneficiary and to do all things necessary to administer such estate.

(2) Any officer authorised for the purpose by the body corporate may on behalf of the body corporate swear affidavits, make declarations, statements of defence or other statements, give security and do any other act or thing required by any Charter, Act of Parliament or rule of court to be made by persons making application for probate or letters of administration.

(3) Whenever the body corporate shall have been appointed executor or administrator it shall be subject in all respects to the same control and to removal or restraint from acting and generally to the jurisdiction of the courts in the same manner as any other executor or administrator and all the property real and personal of the body corporate and the members thereof and their respective estates shall be liable for the proper discharge of the duties of such office.