Terms used
3 Terms used
In this Act —
appointed Board member means a Board member appointed under section 26(2);
Board means Infrastructure WA’s Board referred to in section 25;
Board member means a member of the Board;
CEO has the meaning given in section 49;
committee means a committee appointed under section 43;
Department of the Premier and Cabinet means the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Premier;
employing authority has the meaning given in the Public Sector Management Act 1994 section 3(1);
ex‑officio Board member means a person who is a Board member under section 26(3);
government employee means any of the following —
a person employed in the Public Sector by or under an employing authority;
a person who is an employee of a public authority;
Government response means a response to the State Infrastructure Strategy prepared by the Premier under section 16;
government trading enterprise means any of the following —
a body established by the Electricity Corporations Act 2005 section 4(1);
a port authority established by the Port Authorities Act 1999 section 4(1);
a body established by or under the Water Corporations Act 1995 section 4;
the body established by the Western Australian Land Authority Act 1992 section 5(1);
a body prescribed for the purposes of this definition;
a subsidiary of a body referred to in one of paragraphs (a) to (e);
infrastructure includes infrastructure that has, or is intended to have, economic, social or environmental value;
Infrastructure Australia means the body established by the Infrastructure Australia Act 2008 (Commonwealth) section 4;
major infrastructure proposal means a proposal, for an infrastructure project or for a programme of infrastructure projects, if —
the project has or the projects have an estimated capital cost of $100 million or more, or another amount prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph; or
the proposal is nominated by the Premier for the purposes of this definition; or
the project is or the projects are prescribed, or in a class of infrastructure project prescribed, for the purposes of this definition;
misconduct, in relation to an office holder, includes conduct that renders the office holder unfit to hold office even though the conduct does not relate to a duty of the office;
public authority means any of the following —
a Minister of the Crown;
an agency or an organisation as those terms are defined in the Public Sector Management Act 1994 section 3(1);
a body, whether incorporated or not, or the holder of an office, that is established or continued for a public purpose under a written law and that, under the authority of a written law, performs a statutory function on behalf of the Crown;
Public Sector has the meaning given in the Public Sector Management Act 1994 section 3(1);
remuneration has the meaning given in the Salaries and Allowances Act 1975 section 4(1);
staff member means the CEO or a person referred to in section 57, 58 or 59;
State agency means any of the following —
an agency as defined in the Financial Management Act 2006 section 3;
a government trading enterprise;
State Infrastructure Programme means the State Infrastructure Programme in effect under Part 3 Division 2 for the time being;
State Infrastructure Strategy means the State Infrastructure Strategy in effect under Part 3 Division 1 for the time being;
unable to act, in relation to an office holder, includes, without limitation, that the office holder is on leave, whether extended or not and whether for illness or not.
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