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INSTRUMENTS ACT 1958 - SECT 31A

Formalities of making, varying or discharging a contract

    (1)     So far as the formalities of making varying or discharging a contract are concerned, any person acting under the authority express or implied of a body corporate may make, vary or discharge any contract in the name or on behalf of the body corporate in the same manner as if that contract were made, varied or discharged by a natural person.

    (2)     The making variation or discharge of a contract according to this section shall be effectual in law and shall bind the body corporate and its successors and all other parties thereto.

    (3)     Nothing in this section shall be taken as preventing a body corporate from making, varying or discharging a contract under its common seal.

    (4)     This section shall not apply to the making variation or discharge of a contract before the commencement of the Instruments (Corporate Bodies Contracts) Act 1967 but shall apply whether the body corporate gave its authority before or after the commencement of the Instruments (Corporate Bodies Contracts) Act 1967 .

    (5)     Nothing in this section shall limit the operation or effect of any enactment which requires any sanction or consent to be obtained or any procedure to be complied with either before or after any contract is made, varied or discharged.

S. 31A(6) amended by Nos 9699 s. 23, 44/2001 s. 3(Sch. item 65.2).

    (6)     This section shall apply to a body corporate wherever incorporated but shall not apply to any company within the meaning of the Corporations Act.

Pt 6
(Heading and ss 32–58) amended by Nos 6438 ss 2, 3(a)(b), 4, 5(1), 69, 7941 s. 2, 8181 s. 2(1)(Sch. item 74), 8198 ss 315, repealed by No. 9650 s. 27(1)(b).

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Pt 7 (Heading and ss 59–68) amended by Nos 8181 s. 2(1)(Sch. items 71, 73), 9554 s. 2(2)(Sch. 2 item 101), 9650 s. 27(1)(c), 16/1986 s. 30, 15/1987 s. 31(2)(a), 41/1987 s. 103(Sch. 4 item 38.2), 57/1989 s. 3(Sch. items 102.7, 102.8), 49/1994 s. 9(2), 69/2009 s. 54(Sch. Pt 2 item 28), repealed by No. 74/2010 s. 15(1).

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Pt 8 (Heading and ss 69–82) amended by Nos 6505 s. 2, 8181 s. 2(1)(Sch. item 75), 9576 s. 11(1), 9650 s. 27(1)(d), 15/1987 s. 31(2)(b), 57/1989 s. 3(Sch. item 102.9), 84/2001 s. 6, 69/2009 s. 54(Sch. Pt 2 item 28), repealed by No. 74/2010 s. 15(3).

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Pt 9 (Heading and ss 83–96) amended by Nos 6867 s. 2(Sch. 1), 8181 s. 2(1)(Sch. item 72), 19/1989 s. 16 (Sch. items 29.2(a)(b), 29.3(a)(b), 29.4(a)(b), 29.5(a)–(c)), 57/1989 s. 3 (Sch. items 102.10, 102.11), repealed by No. 84/1997
s. 48(1).

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Pt 10
(Heading and ss 97–103)
repealed by No. 6531 s. 1(5)(b).

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Pt 11
(Heading and ss 104–125) amended by Nos 6505 s. 2, 9075 s. 5(1), substituted as Pt 11 (Heading and ss 104-113) by No. 9421 s. 2, amended by Nos 9691 ss 2, 3, 9699 s. 23, 58/1986 s. 87, 7/1990 s. 11, 52/1998 s. 311(Sch. 1 items 43.1, 43.2), 35/1996 s. 453(Sch. 1 item 40.2), 52/2001 s. 13(3), 9/2002 s. 3(Sch. item 9), 75/2003 s. 3, repealed by No. 57/2014 s. 144(1).

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Pt 11A (Heading and ss 114–125ZP) inserted by No. 75/2003 s. 4, amended by Nos 4/2008 s. 32(Sch. item 16), 29/2011 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 46), repealed by No. 57/2014 s. 144(2).

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Part XII—Miscellaneous promises etc. required to be in writing

No. 3706 s. 128.

S. 126 substituted by No. 35/1987 s. 8, amended by No. 23/2004 s. 9 (ILA s. 39B(1)).



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