Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT - SECT 5

(1) The Agency is the department or departmental unit to which responsibility for administering this Act is allocated by an Administrative Arrangements Order.

(2) The Agency acts under this Act through its Chief Executive Officer or a delegate of its Chief Executive Officer.

(3) It follows that, where this Act confers a particular power on, or assigns a particular power or function to, the Agency, the power or function is to be exercised by the Chief Executive Officer or some other person to whom the Chief Executive Officer has delegated the power or function.

(4) A reference in this section to the Chief Executive Officer of an Agency is a reference to the person responsible for administering the Agency (whether or not that person is officially designated as the Agency's Chief Executive Officer).