Western Australian Consolidated Acts

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 1984 - SECT 139

139 .         Application of Part IX

        (1)         This Part applies to and in respect of the following authorities — 

            (a)         the Public Service of the State; and

            (b)         The Western Australian Government Railways Commission  ⁵ ; and

            (c)         each of the bodies established by section 4(1) of the Electricity Corporations Act 2005 , namely —

                  (i)         the Electricity Generation Corporation; and

                  (ii)         the Electricity Networks Corporation; and

                  (iii)         the Electricity Retail Corporation; and

                  (iv)         the Regional Power Corporation;

                and

            (d)         every public authority within the meaning of subsection (3); and

            (e)         such authorities, bodies, persons, or groups of persons as the Governor may by regulation declare to be authorities for the purposes of this Part.

        (2)         Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Governor may by regulation declare that a person, group of persons, authority or body which would otherwise be an authority for the purposes of this Part shall not be an authority for the purposes of this Part.

        (3)         In subsection (1)(d), public authority means State trading concern, State instrumentality, State agency, or any public statutory body, corporate or unincorporate established by or under a law of the State.

        [Section 139 amended by No. 89 of 1994 s. 109: No. 58 of 1999 s. 101; No. 24 of 2000 s. 14(13); No. 18 of 2005 s. 139.]