Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts(1) This section applies if:
(a) a community services entity provides services in a business management area; and
(b) either:
(i) the Minister is satisfied that a service is not being provided in the area; or
(ii) a service is not being provided in the area to the satisfaction of the Minister; and
(c) the Minister is satisfied that funding has been provided by the Commonwealth or the Northern Territory that could be used by the entity to provide the service in the area.
(2) The Minister may give a direction, in writing, to the community services entity to do all or any of the following:
(a) provide the service;
(b) provide the service in a specified way (including directing that a specified person is to do, or is not to do, any specified thing in relation to the provision of the service);
(c) provide the service within a specified period or periods.
(3) Despite subsection 14(2) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 , a direction may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, any matter contained in any other instrument or writing as in force or existing:
(a) at the time when the direction is made; or
(b) from time to time.
(4) A direction given under this section is a legislative instrument, but section 42 (disallowance) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 does not apply to the direction.