This Act may be cited as the Good Shepherd Nuns (Incorporation) Act 1973.
Act 108
Good Shepherd Nuns (Incorporation) Act 1973
Akta (perbadanan) good shepherd nuns 1973
An Act to incorporate the Sister Superior of the Good Stepherd Nuns in Malaysia.
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Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
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(1) Sister Joan Gormley, the Sister Superior of the Good Shepherd Nuns in Malaysia and her successors in office, shall be a body corporate by the name of βthe Sister Superior of the Good Shepherd Nuns, Malaysiaβ, in this Act referred to as βthe Corporationβ.
(2) The Corporation may enter into contracts and may acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description and may convey, transfer, assign, surrender and yield up, charge, mortgage, demise, reassign or otherwise dispose of, or deal with, any movable or immovable property vested in the Corporation.
(3) The Corporation may sue and be sued in respect of its property and otherwise in all courts of justice and in all matters and suits.
(1) The Corporation shall have a common seal and such seal may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as to the Corporation seems fit.
(2) No deed, document or other instrument sealed with the seal of the Corporation shall be deemed to be duly sealed unlessβ
(a) such seal has been affixed in the presence of the Sister Superior for the time being in office, or her attorney duly authorized by a power of attorney registered under the Powers of Attorney Act 1949 [Act 424]; and
(b) such deed, document or other instrument is signed by the said Sister Superior for the time being in office or her attorney so authorized as aforesaid.
(3) Such signing shall be and be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deed, document or other instrument.
A notification in the Gazette of the appointment of any person to hold, or act in, the office of Sister Superior of the Good Shepherd Nuns in Malaysia shall be conclusive evidence that such person was duly authorized and appointed.
All movable and immovable property situated in Malaysia heretofore held for and by, conveyed, assigned, granted, leased, transferred, transmitted to or otherwise vested in the Sister Superior of the Good Shepherd Nuns in Malaysia is vested in the Corporation for the purposes of this Act and subject to the rules for the time being of the Corporation.
Nothing in this Act shall affect the rights of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the Rulers or the Yang di-Pertua Negeri or of any body politic or corporate or of any persons except such as are mentioned in this Act and those claiming by, from or under them.
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Good Shepherd Nuns (Incorporation) Act 1973 [Act 108] (Laws of Malaysia, lom.agc.gov.my). Retrieved via LawPlayer, https://lawplayer.com/my/act/act-108
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Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).