(1) The Commissioner is, for the purpose of exercising or performing those
powers, authorities, duties or functions expressed to be conferred or imposed
on the Corporation by or under this Act, hereby incorporated as a corporation
sole with the corporate name "Soil Conservation Commission of New South
Wales".
(c) may take proceedings, and be proceeded against, in its
corporate name,
(d) may do and suffer all other things that a body corporate
generally may, by law, do and suffer and that are necessary for or incidental
to the purposes for which the Corporation is constituted, and
(e) is, for the
purposes of any Act, a statutory body representing the Crown.
(3) The seal of
the Corporation shall be kept by the Commissioner and shall be affixed to an
instrument or document only in the presence of the Commissioner, or a person
for the time being authorised by the Commissioner for the purpose, who shall
attest by his or her signature the fact and date of the affixing of the seal.
(4) All courts and persons acting judicially:
(a) shall take judicial notice
of the seal of the Corporation that has been affixed to any instrument or
document, and
(b) shall, until the contrary is proved, presume that the seal
was properly affixed.
