Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to this
Act, the University shall consist of the Council, the members of the staff and
the enrolled students.
(2) The University
shall be a body corporate and under its corporate name —
(a) has
perpetual succession;
(b)
shall have a common seal;
(c) may
sue and be sued in any court;
(d) may
take, purchase and hold real and personal property, including property
devised, bequeathed or given to the University;
(e) may
grant, sell, alienate, assign and demise real and personal property acquired
or held by the University as it thinks fit subject only, in respect of
property devised, bequeathed or given to the University, to the express trusts
of any deed, will, or instrument under which the property was acquired;
(ea) may
grant leases of land vested in the University under section 28 for a term
not exceeding 99 years subject, where the term exceeds 21 years, to
the approval of the Governor;
(f) may
do and suffer all other acts and things that bodies corporate may by law do
and suffer.
[Section 5 amended by No. 63 of 1990
s. 7 and 19; No. 8 of 2005 s. 14.]