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Act 108

GOOD SHEPHERD NUNS

(INCORPORATION) ACT 1973
Incorporating all amendments up to 1 January 2006

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GOOD SHEPHERD NUNS (INCORPORATION)

ACT 1973

Date of Royal Assent ... ... ... … 15 June 1973

Date of publication in the Gazette ... … … 21 June 1973

PREVIOUS REPRINTS

First Reprint ... ... ... ... ... 1994

Second Reprint ... ... ... ... ... 2000

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LAWS OF MALAYSIA

Act 108

GOOD SHEPHERD NUNS

(INCORPORATION) ACT 1973

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1. Short title
2. Incorporation of the Sister Superior of the Good Shepherd Nuns in
Malaysia
3. Common seal of the Corporation
4. Notification of appointment of Sister Superior
5. Vesting of property
6. Saving of rights

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LAWS OF MALAYSIA

Act 108

GOOD SHEPHERD NUNS

(INCORPORATION) ACT 1973

An Act to incorporate the Sister Superior of the Good Stepherd

Nuns in Malaysia.

[22 June 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan

Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and
Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Good Shepherd Nuns (Incorporation)

Act 1973.

Incorporation of the Sister Superior of the Good Shepherd

Nuns in Malaysia

2. (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 “the Sister Superior of the Good Shepherd
Nuns, Malaysia”, in this Act referred to as “the Corporation”.

(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.
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Common seal of the Corporation
3. (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 unless—
(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.

Notification of appointment of Sister Superior

4. 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.

Vesting of property
5. 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.

Saving of rights
6. 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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(INCORPORATION) ACT 1973

LIST OF AMENDMENTS

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GOOD SHEPHERD NUNS

(INCORPORATION) ACT 1973

LIST OF SECTIONS AMENDED

Section Amending authority In force from

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