Australian Capital Territory

australian-american educational
foundation act 1966
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Reprinted as at 30 November 1996
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
	1.	Short title
	2.	Repeal
	4.	Interpretation
	5.	Incorporation of Foundation
	6.	Power to dispose of land in the name of former Foundation
	7.	Service of documents

An Act relating to the Australian-American Educational Foundation
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Australian-American Educational Foundation Act 1966.1
Repeal
2.  The United States Educational Foundation in Australia Ordinance 1950 is repealed.

Interpretation
4.  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—
“the Agreement” means the agreement dated 28 August 1964, made between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United States of America for the financing of certain educational and cultural exchange programmes;
“the former Foundation” means the Foundation referred to in the United States Educational Foundation in Australia Ordinance 1950;
“the Foundation” means the Australian-American Educational Foundation established under the Agreement.
Incorporation of Foundation
5.  (1)  For the purpose of facilitating the operations of the Foundation under the Agreement, the Foundation is by this Act established as a body corporate with perpetual succession under the name of “Australian-American Educational Foundation”.
(2)  The Foundation—
	(a)	shall have a common seal;
	(b)	is capable of acquiring (whether as grantee or transferee), holding and disposing of or otherwise dealing with real and personal property;
	(c)	may enter into contracts; and
	(d)	may sue and be sued, whether the cause of action arose before or arises after the commencement of this Act.
(3)  All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the common seal of the Foundation affixed to a document and shall presume that it was duly affixed.
Power to dispose of land in the name of former Foundation
6. The power to dispose of real and personal property conferred on the Foundation by the last preceding section shall be deemed to include a power to dispose of land registered under the Land Titles Act 1925 in the name of the former Foundation as if the Foundation were the registered proprietor of the land.
Service of documents
7.  A notice, process or other document may, for the purposes of any law of the Territory, be served upon or given to the Foundation—

	(a)	by leaving it at the office of the Foundation at Canberra with some person apparently in the service of the Foundation; or
	(b)	by sending it by registered post to the Foundation at that office.

NOTES
1.	The Australian-American Educational Foundation Act 1966 as shown in this reprint comprises Act No. 16, 1966 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
	Citation of Laws—The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989 (No. 21, 1989) altered the citation of most Ordinances so that after Self-Government day they are to cited as Acts.  That Act also affects references in ACT laws to Commonwealth Acts.
2.	The Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 (No. 51, 1996) authorises the Parliamentary Counsel in preparing a law for republication, to make certain editorial and other formal amendments in accordance with current legislative drafting practice.  Those amendments make no change in the law.  Amendments made pursuant to that Act do not appear in the Table of Amendments but details may be obtained on request from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
Table 1
Table of Ordinances
Ordinance	Number  
and year	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

Australian-American Educational Foundation Ordinance 1966	16, 1966	20 Oct 1966	20 Oct 1966		
Ordinances Revision (Administrative Arrangements) Ordinance 1977
	18, 1977	21 June 1977	21 June 1977	—	
Self-Government day 11 May 1989
Table 2
Table of Acts
Act	Number  
and year	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

(Reprinted as at 31 May 1991)	
Land Titles (Consequential Amendments) Act 1995
	54, 1995	20 Dec 1995	20 June 1996
(see  s. 2)	—	

Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

S. 3	rep. No. 18, 1977
S. 6.	am. No. 54, 1995