Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Epworth Foundation Act 1980 - SECT 3

PART 2 EPWORTH FOUNDATION

Constitution and incorporation of Epworth Foundation

3. Constitution and incorporation of Epworth Foundation



(1) There is hereby established a body corporate with perpetual succession and
a common seal, capable in law of holding land, of suing and being sued and of
doing and suffering all acts matters and things which bodies corporate may by
law do or suffer.

(2) The name of the body corporate shall be "Epworth Foundation".



(3) The body corporate shall consist of the Board of Management.

(4) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial
notice of the common seal of the body corporate affixed to a document and
until the contrary is proved shall presume that it was duly affixed.

(5) Despite the change of name made by section 8 of the Epworth Hospital
(Amendment) Act 1997, the Foundation is the same body after the commencement
of that section as it was before that commencement.