Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION ACT - SECT 41

    (1)     The Minister:

        (a)     may, by Gazette notice, declare an institution established for the provision of educational services in an academic, vocational or practical discipline or of a recreational nature to persons who have attained the age of 15 years, to be a college; and

        (b)     must, in a notice under paragraph (a), specify the name by which the college is to be known.

    (2)     The Minister must not declare an institution to be a college if it is wholly maintained otherwise than by Territory or Commonwealth funding.

    (3)     A college:

        (a)     is a body corporate with perpetual succession; and

        (b)     has a common seal; and

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

    (4)     All courts, judges and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the common seal of a college affixed to a document and presume that it was duly affixed.