Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) The Authority has
the following functions —
(a) to
be an agency which provides, or promotes the provision of, land for the social
and economic needs of the State;
(b) to
be an agency through which the Crown and public authorities may dispose of
land;
(c) to
be an agency through which local governments, regional local governments and
regional subsidiaries may dispose of land in accordance with the
Local Government Act 1995 ;
(d) to
complete the development of the Joondalup Centre, in accordance with the plan
referred to in section 18, on the land described in Schedule 2;
(e) to
identify other potential centres of population, and centres of population in
need of urban renewal, and use its powers to bring about the provision, or
improvement, of land, infrastructure, facilities or services for the same.
(1a) It is also a
function of the Authority —
(a) to
do things that the board determines to be conducive or incidental to the
performance of a function referred to in subsection (1); and
(b) to
do things that it is authorised to do by any other written law.
(2) In subsection (1)
—
Joondalup Centre means the project for the
provision of infrastructure and facilities for a centre of population
(including infrastructure and facilities for community, cultural, recreational
and sporting purposes) that before the commencement of this section was being
carried on by the Joondalup Development Corporation under the Act repealed by
section 50(1)(c).
(3) The Authority may
perform any of its functions in the State or, with the Minister’s
approval, elsewhere.
[Section 16 amended: No. 60 of 1998 s. 8; No. 67
of 2004 s. 15; No. 26 of 2016 s. 95.]
[ 16A. Deleted: No. 13 of 2023 s. 286.]