Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Companies (Administration) Act 1981 - SECT 6

Corporate Affairs Commissioner to be body corporate

6. Corporate Affairs Commissioner to be body corporate



(1) The Commissioner for Corporate Affairs referred to in section 4(1) and his
successors in office shall, subject to this Act, be a body corporate under the
name of the "Commissioner for Corporate Affairs" and shall by that name have
perpetual succession and a common seal and be capable in law of suing and
being sued and of acquiring, holding, and disposing of real and personal
property and of doing and suffering all such acts and things as bodies
corporate may by law do or suffer.

(2) In addition to the common seal of the Commissioner there shall be such
duplicates of that seal as the Commissioner directs and every document to
which such a duplicate seal is affixed shall be deemed to have the common seal
of the Commissioner affixed to it.

(3) Every court shall take judicial notice of the common seal of the
Commissioner affixed to a document and, unless the contrary is established,
shall presume that it was duly affixed.