New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RICE MARKETING ACT 1983 - SECT 11

11 Constitution of board

(1) Where a proclamation under section 10 takes effect in relation to a board, there is hereby constituted a corporation under the corporate name specified in the relevant proclamation, for the primary product so specified and in relation to the area so specified.

(2) A board shall have and may exercise the functions conferred or imposed on it by or under this or any other Act.

(3) The members of a board shall be appointed by the Governor.

(4) A board is to consist of 3 elected members and 4 nominated members.

(5) The nominated member or members of a board shall be nominated for appointment by the Minister.

(6) A board does not, for any purpose, represent the Crown.

(7) The Governor may, by proclamation, specify the objects of a board referred to in the proclamation, and the board shall, as far as practicable, have regard to those objects in the exercise of the functions conferred or imposed on it by or under this or any other Act, but nothing in this subsection authorises or requires the board to contravene any provisions of this Act or of any other law.

(8) A board:

(a) has perpetual succession,

(b) shall have a common 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, and

(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 board is constituted.

(9) Schedule 2 has effect with respect to the members of a board.

(10) Schedule 3 has effect with respect to the procedure of a board.