Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1993 No. 37 of 1993 - SECT 5

5. After section 96 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:
Advisory committee - disclosure of interests at meetings

"96A.(1) A member of an advisory committee established under section 96 who
has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter being considered or
about to be considered by the committee must, as soon as possible after the
relevant facts have come to the member's knowledge, disclose the nature of the
interest at a meeting of the committee.

"(2) A disclosure under subsection (1) must be recorded in the minutes of the
meeting of the committee. Advisory committee - member's appointment to be
terminated for non - disclosure of interests

"96B.(1) This section applies to an advisory committee established under
section 96 by a Regional Council.

"(2) The Regional Council must terminate the appointment of a member of the
committee if the member fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with
section 96A.

"(3) Subsection (2) does not, by implication, limit the power of the Regional
Council to terminate the appointment of a member of the committee. Advisory
committee - resignation

"96C. A member of an advisory committee established under section 96 may
resign from the committee by writing signed by the member and sent to the
Regional Council concerned.".