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Rural Assistance Amendment (Board
Membership) Bill 1996
Explanatory note
This explanatory note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament.*
(a)
provide for 2 additional part-time members of the Board of the Rural
Assistance Authority (there are currently 4 part-time members who
together with the Chief Executive of the Authority make up the
Board), and
(b)
provide that the 2 additional part-time members are to have such social
welfare, rural counselling or other background as the Minister
considers necessary, and
(c)
make a consequential savings amendment.
* Amended in committee--see table at end of volume.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on a day or
days to be appointed by proclamation.
Clause 3 is a formal provision giving effect to the amendments to the Rural
Assistance Act 1989 set out in Schedule 1.
Schedule 1
Amendments
Schedule 1 [ 1 ] and [2] increase the number of part-time members of the
Board of the Authority from 4 to 6 and provides that the 2 additional
members are to have such backgrounds in social welfare, rural counselling or
other areas as the Minister considers necessary to enable the Board to carry
out its functions.
Schedule 1 [3] and [4] insert consequential savings provisions.
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