ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS ACT 1983 - SECT 248 Aboriginal Land Councils to be public authorities etc for certain purposes

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS ACT 1983 - SECT 248

248 Aboriginal Land Councils to be public authorities etc for certain purposes

(cf former section 65A)

(1) Each Aboriginal Land Council is taken to be a public authority for the purposes of the Ombudsman Act 1974 , the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988 and the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 .

(2) Despite subsection (1), a Local Aboriginal Land Council is not taken to be an agency for the purposes of section 6 of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 .