Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Associations Incorporation Act 1981 - SECT 38

PART IX MISCELLANEOUS

Registrar of Incorporated Associations

38. Registrar of Incorporated Associations



(1) Subject to the Public Administration Act 2004 there is to be a
Registrar of Incorporated Associations.

(2) The person who is for the time being employed as the
Registrar of Incorporated Associations under the
Public Administration Act 2004, and the successors in office of that person,
are a body corporate under the name "Registrar of Incorporated Associations"
which, by that name-

   (a)  has perpetual succession; and

   (b)  has an official seal; and

   (c)  may sue and be sued; and

   (d)  may acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property; and

   (e)  may do and suffer all things that a body corporate may, by law, do and
        suffer.

(3) The official seal of the Registrar must be kept as directed by the
Registrar and must not be used except as authorised by the Registrar.

(4) All courts must take judicial notice of the official seal of the Registrar
on a document and, until the contrary is proved, must presume that the seal
was properly affixed.

(5) The Registrar may by instrument delegate any of the Registrar's powers and
functions under this Act, other than this power of delegation, to any person
employed under Part 3 of the Public Administration Act 2004.