Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Every Aboriginal council existing at the commencement of this Act is preserved, continued in being and constituted as a body corporate and shall continue as such until it is dissolved as prescribed.
(2) Every Aboriginal council established after the commencement of this Act shall upon its establishment be a body corporate and shall continue as such until it is dissolved as prescribed.
(3) A body corporate referred to in subsection (1) or (2) shall have perpetual succession and an official seal which shall be judicially noticed and shall, under its name, being (name of the council area) Aboriginal council, be capable in law of suing and being sued, of acquiring, holding (absolutely or subject to trusts), letting, leasing, hiring, disposing of and otherwise dealing with property real and personal and of doing and suffering all such acts and things as bodies corporate may in law do and suffer.
(4) The persons who at the commencement of this Act comprise an Aboriginal council shall continue in office until their successors are appointed as prescribed.