Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Deakin University Act 1974 - SECT 3

Establishment of Deakin University

3. Establishment of Deakin University



(1) There shall be established in Victoria a University to be known as "Deakin
University" consisting of a Council and such graduates diplomates and members
of the academic and other staff as may be prescribed and the enrolled students
of the University.

(2) The University shall be a body politic and corporate by the name of
"Deakin University" and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and
shall be capable in law of suing and of being sued and of taking purchasing
holding demising selling transferring conveying mortgaging or otherwise
disposing of real and personal property for the purposes of and subject to
this Act of doing and suffering all acts matters and things which bodies
corporate may by law do and suffer.