This Act may be cited as the Director General of Social Welfare (Incorporation) Act 1948.
Act 529
Director General of Social Welfare (Incorporation) Act 1948
Akta ketua pengarah kebajikan masyarakat (perbadanan) 1948
An Act to incorporate the Director General of Social Welfare, 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) The officer for the time being discharging the duties of Director General of Social Welfare, Malaysia, and his successors in office shall be a body corporate under the name of βDirector General of Social Welfare Malaysiaβ (hereinafter called βthe corporationβ).
(2) The corporation may enter into contracts and sue and be sued in its said name and shall have perpetual succession and a corporate seal, and the said seal may from time to time be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the corporation deems fit, and until a seal is provided under this section a stamp bearing the inscription βDirector General of Social Welfare Malaysiaβ may be used as the corporate seal.
(3) The corporation may acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description, and sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, charge, demise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any movable and immovable property vested in the corporation upon such terms as the corporation deems fit.
All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the corporation in the presence of the officer for the time being discharging the duties of the office of Director General of Social Welfare, Malaysia, who shall sign every such deed, document or other instrument to which the corporate seal is affixed, and such signing shall be sufficient evidence that the said seal was duly and properly affixed and that the same is the lawful seal of the corporation.
A notification in the Gazette of the appointment of any person to hold or act in the office of Director General of Social Welfare, Malaysia, shall be conclusive evidence that such person was duly so appointed.
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Director General of Social Welfare (Incorporation) Act 1948 [Act 529] (Laws of Malaysia, lom.agc.gov.my). Retrieved via LawPlayer, https://lawplayer.com/my/act/act-529
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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).