Sancta Sophia College Incorporation Act 1929 (NSW)

Sancta Sophia College Incorporation Act 1929 No 45

An Act to incorporate the Principal and Councillors of Sancta Sophia College; to establish Sancta Sophia College as a College of and within the University; to vest certain lands in the University and to empower the University to grant such lands to Trustees for the purposes of Sancta Sophia College; to vest certain lands held by trustees in trust for the rector and Fellows of Saint John's College in certain other persons; to amend the University and University Colleges Act 1900, and certain other Acts; and for purposes connected therewith.

1 Name of Act This Act may be cited as the Sancta Sophia College Incorporation Act 1929.

2 Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: Body corporate means the Principal and Councillors of Sancta Sophia College, incorporated under this Act. College means Sancta Sophia Hall established as a college of the University by this Act. Sancta Sophia Hall means the building erected on the land described in Schedule 1.

3 Sancta Sophia Hall (1) So soon as the Governor is satisfied that a principal and eighteen councillors for the government of Sancta Sophia Hall in accordance with the constitution thereof, as in this Act set forth, have been duly appointed and elected respectively, the same shall be notified by the Governor by proclamation in the Gazette.

Editorial note— For notification under this subsection, see Gazette No 28 of 7.3.1930, p 1119. (2) Immediately upon such notification and from thenceforth the principal and councillors of Sancta Sophia Hall shall be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "The Principal and Councillors of Sancta Sophia College", by which name the body corporate shall sue and be sued or otherwise appear, answer, and be answered. (3) The body corporate shall have perpetual succession and a common seal. (4) The body corporate may take and hold them or their successors by grant, will, or otherwise in perpetuity, or for any term of life or years, as well chattels and other personal property as land, buildings, and other hereditaments, and subject to subsection (5) alien or otherwise dispose of or demise the same or any part thereof. (5) It shall not be lawful for the body corporate or any person or persons seised of or entitled to any lands in trust for the body corporate or for the purposes of the college to alienate, mortgage, charge, or demise any lands or hereditaments granted to or in trust for the body corporate or for college purposes by His Majesty or his successors or by the University of Sydney without the consent in writing of the Governor. (6) The body corporate may do all other things incident or appertaining to a body corporate.