Terms used
4 Terms used
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —
acquire includes take on lease;
Authority means the Western Australian Land Authority established by section 5(1);
Crown land has the meaning given by the Land Administration Act 1997;
develop, in relation to land, includes redevelop;
dispose of includes sell, exchange, lease, let, grant a licence and grant any easement or right of way;
function, except in sections 16(1) and 17(1), includes powers, duties and authorities;
GTE Act means the Government Trading Enterprises Act 2023;
industrial purposes means —
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
commercial, recreational, retail, accommodation and other purposes ancillary to purposes referred to in paragraph (a) —
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
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 —
land within the meaning of the Land Administration Act 1997; and
any legal or equitable estate or interest in land; and
buildings and other structures; and
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;
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.
[(2) deleted]
[Section 4 amended: 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); No. 13 of 2023 s. 278.]
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