Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act, 1845

Commissioners to be a corporation for the purposes of this Act.

2. For the purposes of this Act the said commissioners of public works in Ireland for the time being, and their successors, shall be a corporation, by the name or style of “The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland,” and by that name, for the purposes of this Act, shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, to be by them made and from time to time altered as they shall think fit, and shall and may sue and be sued, plead or be impleaded, in all courts, and before all justices and others, and in that capacity shall be deemed promoters of the undertaking authorized to be executed by this Act.