New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SANCTA SOPHIA COLLEGE INCORPORATION ACT 1929 - SECT 3

3 Sancta Sophia Hall

(1) So soon as the Governor is satisfied that a principal and eighteen councillors for the government of Sancta Sophia Hall in accordance with the constitution thereof, as in this Act set forth, have been duly appointed and elected respectively, the same shall be notified by the Governor by proclamation in the Gazette.

Note: For notification under this subsection, see Gazette No 28 of 7.3.1930, p 1119.

(2) Immediately upon such notification and from thenceforth the principal and councillors of Sancta Sophia Hall shall be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of “The Principal and Councillors of Sancta Sophia College”, by which name the body corporate shall sue and be sued or otherwise appear, answer, and be answered.

(3) The body corporate shall have perpetual succession and a common seal.

(4) The body corporate may take and hold them or their successors by grant, will, or otherwise in perpetuity, or for any term of life or years, as well chattels and other personal property as land, buildings, and other hereditaments, and subject to subsection (5) alien or otherwise dispose of or demise the same or any part thereof.

(5) It shall not be lawful for the body corporate or any person or persons seised of or entitled to any lands in trust for the body corporate or for the purposes of the college to alienate, mortgage, charge, or demise any lands or hereditaments granted to or in trust for the body corporate or for college purposes by His Majesty or his successors or by the University of Sydney without the consent in writing of the Governor.

(6) The body corporate may do all other things incident or appertaining to a body corporate.