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(1) The trustees of any unincorporated voluntary association of persons or body established for any religious, educational, literary, scientific, sports, social, or charitable purpose shall apply, in manner hereinafter mentioned, to the Minister for a certificate of registration as a corporate body.

(2) The Minister, having regard to the extent, nature, and objects and other circumstances of such body or association may grant a certificate accordingly, subject to such conditions or directions generally as he thinks fit to insert in the certificate.

(3) Such conditions or directions may include, in particular, provisions relating to the qualifications and number of the trustees, their tenure and vacation of office, the mode of appointing new trustees, the custody and use of the official seal, the amount of the land which the trustees may hold, and the purposes for which the land may be applied.

(4) Upon the grant of the certificate, the trustees shall become a body corporate by the name described in the certificate, and shall have perpetual succession and an official seal, and power to sue and be sued in such corporate name, and subject to the conditions and directions contained in the said certificate, to hold and acquire, and by instruments under the official seal to convey, assign, and demise any land now or hereafter belonging to, or held for the benefit of, that body or association, in like manner, and subject to such restrictions and provisions as the trustees might, without such incorporation, hold or acquire, convey or assign, or demise the land for the purposes of that body or association.