HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 45 Provisions relating to the corporate nature of statutory health corporations

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 45

45 Provisions relating to the corporate nature of statutory health corporations

(cf AHS Act s 11, PH Act s 18(3))

(1) A statutory health corporation--

(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 corporation 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 statutory health corporation cannot employ any staff.

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