(1) For the purpose of
carrying out the provisions of this Act, there shall be a board to be called
The Coal Miners’ Welfare Board of Western Australia constituted as
hereinafter provided.
(2) The Board shall be
a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall be
capable in law of suing and being sued and of acquiring, purchasing, holding,
exchanging, leasing, selling and disposing of real and personal property of
every kind and description and of doing such other acts, matters and things
within the provisions of this Act as other corporate bodies may lawfully do.
(3) No Member shall be
personally liable for any act of the Board, but the Board alone shall be
liable.
[Section 8 amended: No. 17 of 2006 s. 7.]