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Health Services Act 1997
22Provisions relating to the corporate nature of local health districts
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#### 22 Provisions relating to the corporate nature of local health districts
22 Provisions relating to the corporate nature of local health districts
(cf AHS Act s 11)
> > (1) A local health district—
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> > > (a) has perpetual succession, and
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> > > (b) is to have an official seal, and
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> > > (c) may take proceedings, and be proceeded against, in its corporate name, and
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> > > (d) may do and suffer all other things that a body corporate may, by law, do and suffer and that are necessary for or incidental to the purposes for which the local health district is constituted, and
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> > > (e) does not represent the Crown.
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> > Note.
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> > Section 150(1) of the [Evidence Act 1995](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1995-025) provides for judicial notice to be taken in relation to a seal of any body established under an Act.
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> > (2) However, a local health district cannot employ any staff.
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> > Note.
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> > Staff may be employed under Part 1 of Chapter 9 in the NSW Health Service to enable a local health district to exercise its functions.
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> **s 22:** Am 2006 No 2, Sch 2 \[6\].