Western Australian Consolidated Acts

HOUSING ACT 1980 - SECT 7

7 .         Authority a body corporate and Crown agency

        (1)         The Authority —

            (a)         is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and

            (b)         is capable in law in its corporate name of suing and being sued.

        (2)         All courts, judges and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the seal of the Authority or the former body (within the meaning of section 6) affixed to any document and shall presume that it was duly affixed.

        (3)         The Authority is an agent of the Crown in right of the State.

        [Section 7 amended by No. 28 of 2006 s. 315 and 332.]