South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts5—Establishment of the Trust
(1) The
Qualco-Sunlands Ground Water Control Trust is established.
(2) The members of
the Trust are the owners for the time being of irrigated properties to which,
or to a part of which, a waterlogging and salinity risk management allocation
is attached under this Act (if section 4(1) applies to an
irrigation authority, the authority is a member of the Trust).
(3) The Trust—
(a) is a
body corporate; and
(b) has
perpetual succession and a common seal; and
(c) can
sue and be sued in its corporate name; and
(d)
holds its property on behalf of the Crown; and
(e) has
the functions assigned to, or conferred on, it by or under this or any other
Act; and
(f) has
all the powers of a natural person in addition to the powers conferred on it
by this or any other Act.
(4) Where a document
appears to bear the common seal of the Trust, it will be presumed, in the
absence of proof to the contrary, that the document was duly executed by
the Trust.
(5) The following
matters are declared to be excluded matters for the purposes of
section 5F of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth in
relation to the whole of the Corporations legislation to which Part 1.1A of
that Act applies:
(a)
the Trust;
(b) an
act or omission of any person, body or other entity in relation to the Trust.