HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 22 Provisions relating to the corporate nature of local health districts

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 22

22 Provisions relating to the corporate nature of local health districts

(cf AHS Act s 11)

(1) A local health district--

(a) has perpetual succession, and

(b) is to have an official seal, and

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

(d) 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 local health district is constituted, and

(e) does not represent the Crown.

Note : Section 150(1) of the Evidence Act 1995 provides for judicial notice to be taken in relation to a seal of any body established under an Act.

(2) However, a local health district cannot employ any staff.

Note : Staff may be employed under Part 1 of Chapter 9 in the NSW Health Service to enable a local health district to exercise its functions.