Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT - SECT 67

(1) The CEO must ensure that proper minutes of meetings of the council, local boards and council committees are kept.

(2) The minutes must:

(a) set out:

(i) the names of the members present at the meeting; and

(ii) the business transacted at the meeting; and

(iii) any other information required by the regulations; and

(b) include references to any written reports or recommendations considered in the course of the meeting together with information about how to obtain access to the reports or recommendations.

(3) The council, local board or council committee must, at its next meeting, or next ordinary meeting, confirm the minutes (with or without amendment) as a correct record of the meeting.

(4) A copy of the minutes must, within 10 business days after the date of the meeting to which they relate, be available to the public:

(a) on the council's website; and

(b) at the council's public office.

(5) A member of the public:

(a) may inspect without fee, at the council's public office, the copy of the minutes made available to the public; and

(b) may, on payment of the appropriate fee fixed by the council, obtain an identical copy of the minutes; and

(c) may, on payment of the appropriate fee fixed by the council, obtain from the CEO a certified copy of, or extract from, the minutes of a meeting.

(6) However, until the council, local board or council committee has confirmed the minutes as a correct record of the meeting:

(a) the minutes, in the form in which they are made available to the public, must be marked with a warning to the effect that they have not been confirmed as a correct record of the meeting; and

(b) no certified copy of, or extract from, the minutes is to be issued.