7. Minister a body corporate
(1) The Minister is, for the purposes of this Act ¾
(a) a body corporate with a corporate name and a common seal; and
(b) capable of taking and defending proceedings in that corporate name.
(2) The corporate name of the Minister is the }Minister for Training~.
(3) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially are to take judicial notice of the common seal of the Minister affixed to any document and are to presume that it was duly affixed.
(4) The body corporate constituted under subsection (1)(a) may, by writing under its common seal, authorise the chief executive, either generally or in respect of a specified matter or specified matters to execute deeds or other instruments on its behalf.
(5) A deed or other instrument executed by the chief executive on behalf of the body corporate binds the body corporate and has the same effect as if it were under the common seal of the body corporate.
(6) Nothing in subsection (4) or (5) prevents the body corporate from making or discharging a contract under its common seal.