Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Act,
unless the contrary intention appears —
acquire includes take on lease;
alternate director means a person appointed as
such under clause 3 of Part A of Schedule 1;
Authority means the Western Australian Land
Authority established by section 5(1);
board means the board of directors of the
Authority provided for by section 6(1);
chairperson means the person appointed as such
under section 6(2);
chief executive officer means the person appointed
as such under section 10;
committee means a committee appointed under
clause 6 of Part A of Schedule 1;
Corporations Act means the
Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth;
Crown land has the meaning given by the Land
Administration Act 1997 ;
develop , in relation to land, includes redevelop;
director means a person appointed to be a member
of the board and except in section 6(2) and clauses 1, 2 and 3 of
Part A of Schedule 1 includes an alternate director and a member of a
committee;
dispose of includes sell, exchange, lease, let,
grant a licence and grant any easement or right of way;
executive officer means a member of the staff of
the Authority designated under section 14A as an executive officer;
function , except in sections 16(1) and
17(1), includes powers, duties and authorities;
industrial purposes means —
(a)
manufacturing, production, technology advancement, fabrication of materials,
packaging, processing, transport, distribution, storage, display of
manufactured goods, research, development and service purposes, and the
purposes of any other activity of an industrial nature; and
(b)
commercial, recreational, retail, accommodation and other purposes ancillary
to purposes referred to in paragraph (a) —
(i)
effected or to be effected in the same general vicinity
as that in which purposes referred to in that paragraph are effected or to be
effected; and
(ii)
necessary or desirable for the wellbeing or convenience
of businesses operating, and workforces employed, in the general vicinity
referred to in subparagraph (i);
land includes —
(a) land
within the meaning of the Land Administration Act 1997 ; and
(b) any
legal or equitable estate or interest in land; and
(c)
buildings and other structures; and
(d)
infrastructure, facilities and services relating to land;
management , in relation to staff, includes
recruitment, selection, appointment, transfer, secondment, performance
management, redeployment, discipline and termination of employment;
member of staff means a person engaged under
section 11;
public authority means a Minister of the Crown in
right of the State, Government department, State trading concern, State
instrumentality, State public utility and any other person or body, whether
corporate or not, who or which, under the authority of any written law,
administers or carries on for the benefit of the State a social service or
public utility;
subsidiary means —
(a) a
body determined to be a subsidiary of the Authority under subsection (2);
or
(b) an
interest or other rights of the Authority in a unit trust, joint venture or
partnership where the interest or other rights of the Authority in connection
with the unit trust, joint venture or partnership entitle the Authority
to —
(i)
control the composition of the governing body of the unit
trust, joint venture or partnership; or
(ii)
cast, or control the casting of, more than one-half of
the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a general meeting of the
unit trust, joint venture or partnership; or
(iii)
control the business affairs of the unit trust, joint
venture or partnership;
Treasurer means the Treasurer of the State.
(2) Part 1.2
Division 6 of the Corporations Act applies for the purpose of determining
whether a body is a subsidiary of the Authority.
[Section 4 amended by No. 14 of 1996
s. 4; No. 31 of 1997 s. 140(1) and 141; No. 60 of 1998
s. 6 and 27; No. 67 of 2004 s. 6; No. 77 of 2006 Sch. 1
cl. 182(1); No. 39 of 2010 s. 88(2).]