Western Australian Current Acts

PROCUREMENT ACT 2020 - SECT 9

9 .         Procurement to which Act does not apply

        (1)         In this section —

        lease includes a licence;

        relevant lease —

            (a)         means —

                  (i)         the lease of an office or other space or facility for use by a State agency (including an arrangement for its construction by another party and lease back to a State agency); or

                  (ii)         the lease of an office or other space or facility of a State agency for use by another party;

                but

            (b)         does not include —

                  (i)         a lease for social housing purposes, for water supply purposes, for environment protection purposes or for other public purposes; or

                  (ii)         a lease of unimproved land; or

                  (iii)         a lease of Crown land under the Land Administration Act 1997 granted by the Minister administering that Act; or

                  (iv)         a lease of any other kind prescribed by the regulations to be excluded from this definition.

        (2)         This Act does not apply to the following —

            (a)         the acquisition or disposal of land or of an interest in land, other than a relevant lease;

            (b)         the employment of staff of a State agency or the appointment of a person to a statutory or executive office;

            (c)         an investment, loan or other financial transaction;

            (d)         a grant of money;

            (e)         the acquisition by a State agency of a thing for resale;

            (f)         procurement between State agencies (other than for the purposes of cooperative arrangements under Part 5);

            (g)         any procurement (whether of specified things, of any specified kind or by any specified entity) prescribed by the regulations to be excluded from the application of this Act.