Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1993 No. 37 of 1993 - SECT 27

27. Section 127 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting from subsection (1) "and thereafter at the next meeting
        held after each anniversary of that first meeting";

   (b)  by omitting paragraph (1)(b) and substituting the following paragraph:

"(b) a Deputy Chairperson.";

   (c)  by inserting in subsection (1A) "or Deputy Chairperson" after

"Chairperson";

   (d)  by omitting subsection (2);

   (e)  by omitting paragraph (3)(b) and substituting the following paragraph:

"(b) must elect a new Deputy Chairperson if there is a vacancy in the office
of Deputy Chairperson of the Regional Council.";

   (f)  by adding at the end the following subsection:

"(5) The first meeting of a Regional Council after it is elected must be held
as soon as practicable after the declaration of the poll in relation to that
election.".