New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH COMMUNITIES' LANDS ACT 1942 - SECT 4

4 Trustees to be bodies corporate

(1) The trustees of community land for each community shall, by virtue of this Act, be a body corporate, having perpetual succession and a common seal, and being capable of acquiring, holding and disposing of any property, real or personal, and of suing and being sued in its corporate name and of doing and suffering all such acts and things as bodies corporate may by law do or suffer.

(2) The corporate names of the trustees of community land for the several communities shall be:

(a) for the Sisters of the Brigidine Congregation, the “Trustees of the Sisters of the Brigidine Congregation”, and

(b) for the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Ireland, the “Trustees of the Christian Brothers”, and

(c) for the Brothers of the Christian Schools, the “Trustees of the De La Salle Brothers”, and

(d) for the Sisters of Saint Dominic of New South Wales, the “Trustees of the Sisters of Saint Dominic”, and

(e) for the Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of Saint Benedict, the “Trustees of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan”, and

(f) for the Sisters of Mercy (Parramatta), the “Trustees of the Sisters of Mercy (Parramatta)”, and

(g) for the Society of Mary for the Province of Australia, the “Trustees of the Marist Fathers for the Province of Australia”, and

(h) for the Society of Mary for the Province of Oceania, the “Trustees of the Marist Missions of the Pacific”, and

(i) for the Marist Brothers of the Schools, the “Trustees of the Marist Brothers”, and

(j) for the Sisters of Mercy (North Sydney), the “Trustees of the Sisters of Mercy (North Sydney)”, and

(k) for the Fathers of the Passion, the “Trustees of the Passionist Fathers”, and

(l) for the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, the “Trustees of the Sisters of Saint Joseph”, and

(m) for the Congregation of the Mission, the “Trustees of the Vincentian Fathers”, and

(n) for Our Lady’s Nurses of the Poor, the “Trustees of Our Lady’s Nurses of the Poor”, and

(o) for the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the “Trustees of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart”, and

(p) for the Order of Preachers, the “Trustees of the Dominican Fathers”, and

(q) for the Sisters of Mercy, Diocese of Bathurst, the “Trustees of the Sisters of Mercy, Diocese of Bathurst”, and

(r) for the Sisters of St. Joseph, Diocese of Bathurst, the “Trustees of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Diocese of Bathurst”, and

(s) for the Sisters of Charity of Australia, the “Trustees of the Sisters of Charity of Australia”, and

(t) for the Sisters of Mercy, Diocese of Lismore, the “Trustees of the Sisters of Mercy, Diocese of Lismore”,

and for each community named in the first column of Schedule 2 shall be the corporate name set out opposite thereto in the second column of such Schedule.

(3) The objects of a body corporate created by this Act include:

(a) the operation and conduct of educational, welfare and health institutions, organisations or other bodies, and

(b) the performance of all such acts, matters and things of any nature (which may include, without limiting the scope of this paragraph, borrowing money) as, in its opinion, are or may be for its benefit or for the benefit of the community to which it relates.