Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00441:section:62
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00441
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 62
Character Range: 54422–56301

62  The legal position of the Slot Manager

Appointment as Slot Manager does not confer separate legal personality
 (1) The appointment of a body corporate to be the *Slot Manager does not confer on the body corporate a legal personality that is separate from the legal personality it already has as a body corporate.

How legal proceedings taken by or against Slot Manager
 (2) Legal proceedings by or against the *Slot Manager are to be taken by or against the body corporate that is the Slot Manager in that body corporate's own name.

Slot Manager not a Commonwealth authority etc.
 (3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), the body corporate that is the *Slot Manager is not to be taken, merely because it holds that office:
 (a) to be the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority; or
 (b) to be established for a public purpose or for a purpose of the Commonwealth; or
 (c) to hold a Commonwealth office or to be a Commonwealth officer; or
 (d) to be a public authority or an agency or instrumentality of the Crown;
(within the ordinary meaning of the expression concerned) for the purposes of a law unless a law, or regulations for the purposes of this section, expressly provide otherwise.
 (4) For the purposes of sections 134.1, 134.2, 135.1 and 135.2 of the Criminal Code, the *Slot Manager is to be taken to be a Commonwealth entity.
 (5) For the purposes of sections 141.1, 142.1, 142.2, 148.1 and 148.2 of the Criminal Code, the following persons are to be taken to be Commonwealth public officials:
 (a) the *Slot Manager; and
 (b) the employees and agents of the Slot Manager; and
 (c) persons authorised under provisions of the *Slot Management Scheme referred to in subsection 35(3).

Interpretation
 (6) In this section:
law means:
 (a) an Act of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or
 (b) regulations or any other instrument made under such an Act.