Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HOUSING ACT 1980 - SECT 6

6 .         The Housing Authority

        (1)         The body corporate constituted under the repealed Act by the name “The State Housing Authority” is preserved and continues in existence for the purposes of this Act as a body corporate retaining the same corporate name and corporate identity  ³ .

        (2)         At the merger time the former body merges into The State Housing Commission.

        (3)         The State Housing Commission, as renamed by subsection (4), is a continuation of the former body.

        (4)         Immediately after the merger time The State Housing Commission is renamed as the Housing Authority.

        (5)         In this section —

        former body means the Government Employees’ Housing Authority established by section 8 of the Government Employees’ Housing Act 1964 as in force before the merger time;

        merger time means the time at which section  314 of the Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 comes into operation.

        [Section 6 amended by No. 28 of 2006 s. 314 and 332.]