INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ACT. 
Part I].—Tur Commonweatte INstirutre oF ‘SCIENCE AND 
Inpusrry. 
4.—(1.) There shall be a Commonwealth Institute of 
Science and Industry, consisting of the Director, which shall 
be a body corporate with perpetual succession and-a common 
seal and capable of suing and being sued. 
(2.) All Courts, Judges and persons acting judicially shall 
take judicial notice of the seal of the Institute affixed to any — 
document or notice, and shall presume that it was duly affixed. 
(3.) The Institute shall, subject to this Act, have power 
to hold lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods, chattels 
and any other property for the purpose of and subject to this 
Act. 
(4.) The Institute shall have power to acquire by gift, 
grant, bequest or devise, any such property for the purposes 
of this Act, and, in the absolute discretion of the Director, to 
agree to any conditions of such gift, grant, bequest or devise. 
(5.) The powers of the Institute under the last preceding 
sub-section shall, subject to the regulations and the approval 
of the Minister, be exercised by the Director on behalf of the 
Tnstitute. 
5. The Institute shall errant 
(a) a Bureau of Agriculture; 
(b) a Bureau of Industries; and 
(c) such other bureaux as the Governor-General: 
determines. 
6. The Governor-General may appoint a Gener al Advisory 
Council and Advisory Boards in each ‘State to adyise the 
Director with regard to— : 
(a) the general business of the Institute or any 
bureau thereof; and 
(by any particular matter of investigation or research. 
¢.—(1.) The Governor-General may appoint a Director of 
the Institute. 
(2.) On the happening of any vacancy ce the office of 
Director of the Institute the Governor-General may appoint 
a person to the vacant office. . 
(3.) The term for which aie appoimtment is ies shall 
be five years, and any person so appointed shall, at the 
expiration of the term of office, be eligible for re-appointment. 
~ (4.) In case-of the illness, sispension or absence of the 
: The Institute 
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and Industry. 
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Constitution 
of Institute. 
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Director, the Governor-General may appoint a person to act 
as Deputy-Director during the illness, suspension or absence,. 
and the Deputy shall, while so acting, have all the powers 
and ii all the duties of the Director. 
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