Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) On and after the
day on which the Western Australian College of Advanced Education Amendment
Act 1990 comes into operation 1 (in this section referred to as the
commencement day ) the body corporate that was continued in existence under
this Act as though it were established under this Act by the name of the
“Western Australian College of Advanced Education Student Guild”
is preserved and continues in existence as a body corporate under and subject
to the provisions of this Act to be called the “Edith Cowan University
Student Guild” but so that the corporate identity of the body corporate
and its rights and obligations are not affected by the change in name.
(1a) A reference to
the Western Australian College of Advanced Education Student Guild, whether by
use of that name or a similar or abbreviated form of that
name —
(a) in a
written law passed or made before the commencement day;
(b) in
any document or other instrument made, executed, entered into or done before
the commencement day; or
(c) made
before the commencement day in any other manner,
shall be construed as
if it had been amended to be a reference to the Edith Cowan University Student
Guild, unless because of the context it would be inappropriate to construe the
reference in that manner.
(2) The Student Guild
under its corporate name —
(a) has
perpetual succession;
(b)
shall have a common seal;
(c) may
sue and be sued in any court; and
(d)
subject to the Statutes, may do and suffer all other acts and things that
bodies corporate may by law do and suffer.
(3) The Student Guild
shall be an organized association of enrolled students the primary function of
which is to further the common interests of its members.
(4) The Student Guild
shall be the recognised means of communication between its members and the
Council in accordance with any Statutes that the Council makes.
(5) Subject to the
conditions and qualifications for membership prescribed by Statute any
enrolled student is eligible to be a member of the Student Guild.
(6) A student becomes
a member of the Student Guild upon enrolment, for the period of enrolment,
unless —
(a) at
the time of enrolment that student elects not to become a member; or
(b) the
enrolled student is not eligible to be a member.
(6a) Despite
subsection (6), an enrolled student may resign at any time as a member of
the Student Guild.
(6b) No academic
benefit, right or privilege shall be denied to or withheld from any enrolled
student by reason of that student not being a member of the Student Guild.
(7) An enrolled
student (whether a member of the Student Guild or not) may vote in an election
held to fill a vacancy in a Student Guild office, but an enrolled student
cannot hold an elective office unless that enrolled student is a member of the
Student Guild.
[(8) deleted]
(9) The Statutes may
prescribe —
(a) the
classes of membership and the conditions of or qualifications for membership
of the Student Guild;
(b) the
powers, duties and functions of the Student Guild; and
(c) such
other matters and things as are necessary or convenient for the effective
exercise of the powers, duties and functions of the Student Guild.
[Section 41 amended by No. 63 of 1990
s. 18 and 19; No. 91 of 1994 s. 10; No. 44 of 2002
s. 7.]