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Parliament Act 2025

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143: Status of Parliamentary Corporation

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"The Parliamentary Corporation is a special group that can make decisions and has its own rights and responsibilities."

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You know the Parliamentary Corporation is a special group. It is like a person and can make decisions. The Parliamentary Corporation has its own seal and can exist forever. It can do things and have responsibilities like a grown-up. You can think of the Parliamentary Corporation like an individual who can make choices. It has rights and powers, but also liabilities and obligations, except for some specific rules mentioned in sections 146 and 147. The Parliamentary Corporation can only use its powers to do its job. The Parliamentary Corporation must only use its powers for its main purposes. This means it can only do things that help it perform its functions or duties.

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143Status of Parliamentary Corporation

  1. The Parliamentary Corporation—

  2. is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and
    1. has and may exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges, and may incur all the liabilities and obligations, of an individual of full age and capacity (except as provided by subsection (2) and sections 146 and 147).

      1. The Parliamentary Corporation may exercise its powers only for the purpose of performing its functions or duties.

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