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Section 3

Establishment of Sarawak Arts Council

of Sarawak Arts Council Ordinance, 2008

State OrdinanceIn forceProvision 3 of 24
Section 3

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(1)

There shall be established a body to be known as the

“Sarawak Arts Council”.

(2)

The Council shall be a body corporate, with perpetual succession, and with full power and authority under such name—

(a)

to sue and be sued;

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(b)

to have and use a common seal, which may from time be broken, changed, altered or made anew by the Council, as it deems fit;

(c)

to acquire, take, hold, enjoy, sell, charge, lease and dispose of property, both movable and immovable; and

(d)

to enter into contracts and generally to do such acts and things as a body corporate may do by law, and to exercise, perform and discharge, in accordance with the provisions of this

Ordinance, all powers and functions conferred and provided to the Council by such provisions.

(3)

Until a common seal is provided, a stamp bearing the inscription “Sarawak Arts Council” may be used as the common seal of the Council.