36Core services

36 Core services (1) The Minister may, by Gazette notice, advise a council as to the services that, in the Minister's view, are services that the council should, as a priority, provide. (2) The council must consider the advice when adopting and renewing its plan.

Division 1 Corporate nature, capacity and powers of council Local Government Act 2019 29 Division 1 Corporate nature, capacity and powers of council 37 Council as body corporate (1) A council: (c) is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real property (including leasehold) and personal property and of suing and being sued. (2) All courts, judges and persons acting judicially are to take judicial notice of the common seal of a council affixed to a document and are to assume that it was duly affixed. (3) A council has the name assigned to it under section 16(1)(i). (4) A council has the functions and powers conferred by this Act or another Act.