62The legal position of the Slot Manager

#### 62 The legal position of the Slot Manager Appointment as Slot Manager does not confer separate legal personality (1) The appointment of a body corporate to be the \*Slot Manager does not confer on the body corporate a legal personality that is separate from the legal personality it already has as a body corporate. How legal proceedings taken by or against Slot Manager (2) Legal proceedings by or against the \*Slot Manager are to be taken by or against the body corporate that is the Slot Manager in that body corporate’s own name. Application of the finance law (2A) An officer, employee or agent of the \*Slot Manager is not an official for the purposes of the finance law (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013). Slot Manager not a Commonwealth authority etc. (3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), the body corporate that is the \*Slot Manager is not to be taken, merely because it holds that office: (a) to be the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority; or (b) to be established for a public purpose or for a purpose of the Commonwealth; or (c) to hold a Commonwealth office or to be a Commonwealth officer; or (d) to be a public authority or an agency or instrumentality of the Crown; (within the ordinary meaning of the expression concerned) for the purposes of a law unless a law, or regulations for the purposes of this section, expressly provide otherwise. (4) For the purposes of sections 134.1, 134.2, 135.1 and 135.2 of the Criminal Code, the \*Slot Manager is to be taken to be a Commonwealth entity. (5) For the purposes of sections 141.1, 142.1, 142.2, 148.1 and 148.2 of the Criminal Code, the following persons are to be taken to be Commonwealth public officials: (a) the \*Slot Manager; and (b) the employees and agents of the Slot Manager; and (c) any person authorised by the Slot Manager, under the \*Slot Management Scheme, to exercise powers or perform functions of the Slot Manager in relation to the allocation or management of slots. Interpretation (6) In this section: > law means: (a) an Act of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or (b) regulations or any other instrument made under such an Act.