LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 388
Legal status of county councils
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 388
Legal status of county councils
388 Legal status of county councils
(1) A proclamation establishing a county
council operates to constitute the county council as a body politic of the
State with perpetual succession and the legal capacity and powers of an
individual, both in and outside the State.
(2) A county council is not a body
corporate (including a corporation).
(3) A county council does not have the
status, privileges and immunities of the Crown (including the State and the
Government of the State).
(4) A law of the State applies to and in respect of
a county council in the same way as it applies to and in respect of a body
corporate (including a corporation).
