Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

DARWIN PORT CORPORATION ACT - SECT 6

6. Darwin Port Corporation

(1) There is established by this Act a Corporation by the name of the Darwin Port Corporation.

(2) The Port Corporation -

(a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession;

(b) shall have a common seal; and

(c) is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real, leasehold and personal property and of suing and being sued.

(3) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Port Corporation affixed to a document and shall presume that it was duly affixed.

(4) The Port Corporation is an Agency for the Public Sector Employment and Management Act and Financial Management Act and is subject to each of those Acts in its operations.

(5) Subsection (4) applies whether or not the Port Corporation is nominated in an Administrative Arrangements Order as an Agency for either or both of the Acts.

(6) The Port Corporation is constituted by the Chief Executive Officer appointed under the Public Sector Employment and Management Act for the Agency.