What is the legal character of every Bar Council under section 5 of the Advocates Act, 1961?

Section 5 provides that every Bar Council "shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal", with power to acquire and hold property, to contract, and to sue and be sued in its own name. It is a statutory body created by the Act itself, so it needs no registration as a society and is not part of a government department.