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Parliamentary Service and other parliamentary bodies - Parliamentary Corporation - Functions, duties, and powers

145: Specific powers of Parliamentary Corporation

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"What the Parliamentary Corporation is allowed to do"

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The Parliamentary Corporation can do certain things. You can think of the Parliamentary Corporation like a group that helps Parliament work. This group can enter into contracts to buy or lease land and buildings. They can also sell or get rid of land and buildings. The group can build, alter, or add to buildings, and develop or improve land. They can even put up partitions or fit out buildings. The Parliamentary Corporation can also give leases or licences to others to use their land or buildings. They can create rules about how the land or buildings are used. You should know that some words have special meanings in this section. A building can be a whole building or just part of one. An encumbrance is something like a mortgage that affects the land or building. A lease can be a sublease, and a licence can be a sublicence. This section does not limit what is said in section 144.

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Parliamentary Corporation: Functions, duties, and powers

145Specific powers of Parliamentary Corporation

  1. The Parliamentary Corporation may—

  2. enter into deeds, contracts, or arrangements—
    1. to purchase, or take on lease or licence, any land or buildings or to acquire any other interest in land or buildings (whether or not that land or those buildings are subject to any encumbrance); and
      1. to sell, transfer, assign, or otherwise dispose of any lease or other interest in land or buildings (whether or not that land or those buildings are subject to any encumbrance); and
        1. to erect, alter, rebuild, or add to any building; and
          1. to develop or improve any land; and
            1. to install partitioning in any building; and
              1. to fit out any building; and
              2. grant leases, tenancies, or licences over land or buildings held by the Parliamentary Corporation, and create easements and restrictive covenants over that land or those buildings, and accept surrenders or partial surrenders of interests granted by the Parliamentary Corporation; and
                1. incur any other obligations relevant to the functions, duties, or powers of the Parliamentary Service.

                  1. This section does not limit section 144.

                  2. In this section,—

                    building includes part of a building

                      encumbrance, in relation to any land or building, means any mortgage, charge, lease, easement, or restrictive covenant or other encumbrance to which the land or building is subject

                        lease includes a sublease

                          licence includes a sublicence.

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