Commons Management Act 1989 No 13
Current version for 1 January 2013 to date (accessed 22 May 2013 at 13:25)

4   A trust to be established in respect of each common

(1)  Whenever a parcel of land is set aside as a common after the commencement of this section, the Minister must, by notice published in the Gazette:
(a)  establish a trust in respect of the common, and
(b)  assign a corporate name to the trust.
(2)  A trust established under subsection (1) is constituted by this Act as a corporation with the corporate name assigned in the notice establishing the trust.
(3)  A body corporate constituted in respect of a common by section 4 of the former Act and in existence immediately before the commencement of this section continues in existence under this Act and is established as a trust in respect of the common for the purposes of this Act.
(4)  The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, alter the corporate name of a trust.
(5)  A trust established in respect of a common has the functions conferred or imposed on it by or under this or any other Act.
(6)  The affairs of a trust shall be managed:
(a)  by a trust board, or
(b)  by a local authority appointed under section 7, or
(c)  where an administrator is appointed under section 5 or 48—by the administrator.
(7)  Section 50 of the Interpretation Act 1987 applies to a trust, but subsection (1) (d) of that section is, in its application to a trust, subject to the provisions of Division 4.
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