New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 220

220 Legal status of a council

(1) A council is a body politic of the State with perpetual succession and the legal capacity and powers of an individual, both in and outside the State.

(2) A council is not a body corporate (including a corporation).

(3) A council does not have the status, privileges and immunities of the Crown (including the State and the Government of the State).

(4) A law of the State applies to and in respect of a council in the same way as it applies to and in respect of a body corporate (including a corporation).