The provisions of the Companies' Acts do not typically directly apply to such bodies, although their founding legislation may specify similar requirements.

NASA's founding legislation in 1958 instructed NASA to ".

The CPP Investment Board's mandate is laid out in its founding legislation, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act.

The Scotland Bill was then successfully piloted through Westminster and became the founding legislation of the new Parliament.

While its founding legislation, the Fire Service Act 1975, only provides for this role, the organisation has assumed (often on the basis of public expectation) responsibility for several other areas.

The group comprises diverse fire agencies per the founding legislation.

The Department of Manual Arts (1906) and classes in Agriculture (1912) were introduced into the curriculum in accordance with requirements of the founding legislation.

Most early research followed mandates of the founding legislation of land-grant colleges by generating knowledge useful in agriculture and engineering.

The founding legislation incorporated two key ideas.

San Francisco Bay was identified in the founding legislation as one of seven estuaries of national concern.