Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 3) 1993 No. 1 of 1994 - SECT 57

57. Section 56 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the
following subsections and Notes:

"(3) The Commission must, by written instrument:

   (a)  set out criteria for the engagement of consultants by the Commission;
        and

   (b)  set out standard terms and conditions for the engagement of
        consultants by the Commission.

"(4) The Commission must notify the making of an instrument under subsection
(3) in the Gazette. Note 1: A consultant to the Commission is not qualified to
stand for election, or to be elected, as a member for a Regional Council ward
(see paragraph 102(1)(c)). Note 2: The Commission may declare that a Regional
Councillor has become a consultant to the Commission. The Regional Councillor
is taken to have resigned from the Regional Council on the date of the
declaration (see subsections 121(3) and (4)).".