New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ACT 1982 - SECT 9

9 Corporation

(1) The Director-General is, for the purpose of exercising the functions expressed to be conferred or imposed on the Corporation by or under this or any other Act, hereby incorporated as a corporation sole with the corporate name “Health Administration Corporation”.

(2) The Corporation:

(a) has perpetual succession,

(b) shall have an official seal,

(c) may take proceedings, and be proceeded against in its corporate name,

(d) subject to this Act, may, for the purposes for which it is constituted, purchase, exchange, take on lease, hold, dispose of and otherwise deal with property,

(e) may do and suffer all other things that a body corporate may, by law, do and suffer and that are necessary for or incidental to the purposes for which the Corporation is constituted, and

(f) is, for the purpose of any Act, a statutory body representing the Crown.

(2A) However, the Corporation cannot employ any staff.

Note: Staff may be employed under Part 1 of Chapter 9 of the Health Services Act 1997 in the NSW Health Service to enable the Corporation to exercise its functions under this or any other Act.

(3) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to:

(a) the custody and use of the seal of the Corporation, and

(b) the keeping of records concerning the acts, decisions and proceedings of the Corporation.

(4) All courts and persons acting judicially:

(a) shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Corporation that has been affixed to any instrument or document, and

(b) shall, until the contrary is proved, presume that the seal was properly affixed.

(5) The Corporation is subject to the control and direction of the Minister.