South Australian Consolidated Acts

VETERINARY PRACTICE ACT 2003 - SECT 5

5—Continuation of Board

        (1)         The Veterinary Surgeons Board continues in existence as the Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia .

        (2)         The Board—

            (a)         is a body corporate; and

            (b)         has perpetual succession and a common seal; and

            (c)         is capable of suing and being sued in its corporate name; and

            (d)         has all the powers of a natural person that are capable of being exercised by a body corporate; and

            (e)         has the functions and powers assigned or conferred by or under this Act.

        (3)         If a document appears to bear the common seal of the Board, it will be presumed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that the common seal of the Board was duly affixed to the document.