New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RICE MARKETING ACT 1983 - SECT 69

69 Constitution of committee

(1) Where a proclamation under section 68 takes effect in relation to a committee, 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 committee 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 committee shall be appointed by the Governor.

(4) A committee shall consist of the number of members specified in the relevant marketing order, and appointments shall be made in accordance with the relevant provisions of the order.

(5) The members of a committee shall, subject to the provisions of the relevant marketing order, be nominated for appointment by the Minister.

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

(7) A committee:

(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 committee is constituted.

(8) Schedule 2 has effect with respect to the members of a committee.

(9) Schedule 3 has effect with respect to the procedure of a committee.