Western Australian Consolidated Acts

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING ACT 1996 - SECT 7B

7B .         Status and purpose

        (1)         VET (WA) Ministerial Corporation (the corporation ) is an agent of the State and has the status, immunities, and privileges of the State.

        (2)         The corporation has power —

            (a)         to enter into any contract that the Minister, under this Act, has power to enter into; and

            (b)         to acquire, hold and dispose of any property that the Minister, under this Act, has power to acquire, hold and dispose of.

        (3)         Despite the employment under the Public Sector Management Act 1994 of ministerial officers for the purpose of assisting the Minister to perform functions that the Minister performs through the corporation, the corporation and those officers are not an organisation for the purposes of that Act.

        [Section 7B inserted by No. 44 of 2008 s. 8.]