ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS ACT 1983 - SECT 234E Co-operation with advisor

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS ACT 1983 - SECT 234E

234E Co-operation with advisor

(1) If an advisor is appointed to a Local Aboriginal Land Council, the Council and its Board members and staff are required to co-operate with the advisor and provide any information or assistance the advisor reasonably requires to exercise his or her functions.

(2) In particular, the Local Aboriginal Land Council must give the advisor an opportunity to review a compliance report at least 14 days before providing the report to the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council and must include a copy of the advisor's comments (if any) when providing the compliance report to the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council.

(3) If a Local Aboriginal Land Council fails to give an advisor an opportunity to comment on a compliance report, the advisor is to--

(a) inform the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council of that fact, and

(b) give the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council a report on the Local Aboriginal Land Council's compliance with the performance improvement order.

(4) If a Local Aboriginal Land Council fails to provide a compliance report to the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council in accordance with a performance improvement order, the advisor must, as soon as practicable after becoming aware of that fact--

(a) prepare a compliance report on behalf of the Local Aboriginal Land Council, and

(b) provide the report to the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council.

(5) A contravention of this section by a Local Aboriginal Land Council is, for the purposes of this Division, a failure to comply with a performance improvement order.