Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 9

9 .         Minister continued in existence as body corporate

        (1)         The body corporate constituted by the Minister and referred to in section 4A of the repealed Act under the name “Minister for Fisheries” is preserved and continued in existence.

        (2)         The corporate identity and the rights, obligations and assets of the body corporate are not affected by the repeal of the repealed Act.

        (3)         The body corporate —

            (a)         has perpetual succession and a common seal;

            (b)         may sue and be sued in its corporate name; and

            (c)         is capable of doing and suffering all that bodies corporate may do and suffer.

        (4)         If a document is produced bearing a seal purporting to be the common seal of the Minister for Fisheries, it is to be presumed that the common seal is the common seal of the Minister for Fisheries, unless the contrary is proved.

[ 10.         Deleted by No. 28 of 2006 s. 233.]