ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 65 Council draft budgets

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 65

65. (1) Where Regional Council estimates included in estimates approved for
the purpose of section 61 are inconsistent with the draft budget of the
Regional Council given to the Minister under section 64, the Minister shall
cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament, within 15 sitting days
of that House after the estimates are approved, a statement:

   (a)  identifying the inconsistency between the Regional Council estimates
        and the draft budget; and

   (b)  giving the Minister's reasons for approving Regional Council estimates
        that are inconsistent with the draft budget.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where an inconsistency between Regional
Council estimates and the draft budget of a Regional Council has been approved
by the Regional Council in writing.