Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 3) 1993 No. 1 of 1994 - SECT 9

9. After section 86 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:
Advisory Board-disclosure of interests at meetings

"86A.(1) A member of the Advisory Board who has a direct or indirect pecuniary
interest in a matter being considered or about to be considered by the Board
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 Board.

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

"86B.(1) The Minister must terminate the appointment of a member of the
Advisory Board if the member fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with
section 86A.

"(2) Subsection (1) does not, by implication, limit the Minister's power to
terminate the appointment of a member of the Advisory Board. Advisory
Board-resignation

"86C. A member of the Advisory Board may resign from the Board by writing
signed by the member and sent to the Minister.".