ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 227 Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 227

227. (1) In this section, "Principal Act" means the Aboriginal Land Rights
(Northern Territory) Act 1976.*5*

(2) Section 23E of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) "or" (last occurring);

   (b)  by inserting after paragraph (3) (b) the following paragraph:

"(ba) to:

        (i)    a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
               Commission;

        (ii)   the Chief Executive Officer of that Commission; or

        (iii)  a member of the staff of that Commission approved by the Chief
               Executive Officer; or";

   (c)  by omitting from subsection (4) all the words from and including

"Neither" to and including "shall" and substituting the following:

"A person to whom information may, in accordance with paragraph (3) (b) or
(ba), be communicated, shall not".

(3) After section 64A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Accounts, financial statements and annual report

"64B. (1) The Commission shall keep accounts, and prepare financial
statements, in such form as the Minister for Finance determines, in respect of
the Trust Account.

"(2) The Commission shall, as soon as practicable after each 30 June, prepare
and submit to the Minister administering this section a report relating to the
Trust Account for the year ending on that day, together with financial
statements for the Trust Account in respect of the year in such form as the
Minister for Finance approves in writing.

"(3) Before submitting the financial statements to the Minister administering
this section, the Commission shall submit them to the Auditor-General, who
shall report to that Minister:

   (a)  whether, in the opinion of the Auditor-General, the statements are
        based on proper accounts and records;

   (b)  whether the statements are in agreement with the accounts and records
        and, in the opinion of the Auditor-General, show fairly the financial
        transactions and state of affairs of the Trust Account; and

   (c)  as to such other matters arising out of the statements as the
        Auditor-General considers should be reported to that Minister.

"(4) The Minister administering this section shall cause a copy of the report
and financial statements, together with a copy of the report of the
Auditor-General, to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15
sitting days of that House after their receipt by that Minister.

"(5) In this section:
'Commission' means the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
established by section 6 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 
Commission Act 1989 .".

*5* No. 191, 1976, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 21, 83 and
70, 1978; No. 189, 1979; No. 72, 1980; No. 92, 1981; Nos. 16 and 80, 1982;
Nos. 63 and 72, 1984; Nos. 65, 93 and 166, 1985; No. 18, 1987 (as amended by
No. 38, 1988); Nos. 40, 75 and 141, 1987; and No. 38, 1988.