Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (Queensland) Act 1971 (Qld)

57 Q11ults1itutr ANNO VICESIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 6 of 1971 An Act Relating to the performance of work within Queensland by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation ASSENTED TO 14TH APRIL, 1971] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Snowy Mountains. Engineering Corporation (Queensland) Act 1971. 2. Definitions . In this Act- the Commonwealth Act " means the Act of the Commonwealth entitled the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Act1970, as amended by the Act of the Commonwealth entitled the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Act (No. 2)1970, and, if the firstmentioned Act has been further amended before, or is further an-ended after, the passing of this Act, means that firstmentioned Act as in force as amended at the material time; " the Corporation " means the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation established by the Commonwealth Act.

58 Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (Qld) Act 1971, No. 6 3. The Corporation . (1) The Corporation shall be deemed to be and at all times since the passing of the Snowy Mountains EngineeringCorporation Act1970 of the Commonwealth to have been for all purposes of the law of the State- (a) a corporation sole by the name Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation with perpetual succession and an official seal; and (b) capable in its corporate name of acquiring, holding, leasing, and disposing of real and personal property and of suing and being sued. (2) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the official seal of the Corporation affixed to a document and shall presume that it was duly affixed. 4. Functions and powers of the Corporation . (1) Where an exercise by the Corporation of a function specified in subsection (1) of section 17 of the Commonwealth Act is not authorized by that Act by reason of the provisions of subsection (2) of that section or by reason of that Act being required to be read and construed so as not to exceed the legislative power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, that exercise of that function by the Corporation is, to the extent that the legislative power of the Parliament of the State permits, authorized by this Act. (2) The authority to exercise functions conferred on the Corporation by this Act does not extend to authorize an exercise of a function unless approval is given to that exercise of the function in accordance with subsections (3), (4) and (5) of section 17 of the Commonwealth Act. (3) In relation to the exercise of a function under the authority conferred on it by this Act the Corporation has all the powers expressed to be conferred on it by the Commonwealth Act as if it were exercising the function under the authority conferred on it by that Act.