Northern Territory Numbered Acts

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 2014 (NO 18 OF 2014) - SECT 17

    (1)     A regulation may:

    (a)     establish a Health Service for an operational area; and

    (b)     prescribe any of the following, or any combination of them, as the operational area for a Service:

        (i)     a part of the Territory;

        (ii)     a public hospital;

        (iii)     a public health facility; and

    (c)     assign a name to the Service.

    (2)     Each Service:

    (a)     is a body corporate with perpetual succession; and

    (b)     has a common seal; and

    (c)     is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real (including leasehold) and personal property and of suing and being sued.

Note for subsection (2)(c)

Section 20(1)(c) requires the approval of the System Manager for a Service to deal with real property.

    (3)     All courts, judges and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the seal of a Service and presume that it was duly affixed.

    (4)     A Service represents the Territory and has all the privileges and immunities of the Territory.