SENTENCING ACT 1991 - SECT 108B Establishment of Sentencing Advisory Council
SENTENCING ACT 1991 - SECT 108B
Establishment of Sentencing Advisory Council(1) The Sentencing Advisory Council is established.
(2) The Council—
(a) is a body corporate with perpetual succession;
(b) has an official seal;
(c) may sue and be sued in its corporate name;
(d) subject to section 108D, may acquire, hold and dispose of personal property;
(e) subject to section 108D, may do and suffer all acts and things that a body corporate may by law do and suffer.
(3) All courts must take judicial notice of the official seal of the Council affixed to a document and, until the contrary is proved, must presume that it was duly affixed.
(4) The official seal of the Council must be kept in such custody as the Council directs and must not be used except as authorised by it.
S. 108C inserted by No. 13/2003 s. 6.