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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission Amendment Act 1994

No. 100 of 1994

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section

  1. Short title etc.
  2. Commencement
  3. Interpretation
  4. Repeal and substitution of new section:
       132. Zone elections
  5. Zone elections—amendments for Torres Strait zone
  6. Timing of zone elections
  7. Insertion of new section:
       142AA. Conferring functions on TSRA
  8. Powers of TSRA
  9. Insertion of new section:
        142GA. TSRA may make grants and loans to Queensland government etc.
  10. Restriction on right to dispose of interest in land
  11. TSRA to formulate decision-making principles about grants, loans and guarantees

TABLE OF PROVISIONS—continued

Section

 12. Constitution of TSRA
 13. Minister may determine manner of representation on TSRA
 14. Insertion of new section:
       142TA. TSRA wards
 15. People entitled to vote at TSRA elections
 16. People qualified to be elected to the TSRA
 17. Term of office of members of TSRA
 18. Polling places
 19. Fixing of election days, and location of polling places, to be notified in Gazette
 20. Repeal and substitution of new section:
       143A. Effect of nominations
 21. Repeal and substitution of new section:
       143E. Counting of votes and election of candidates
 22. Rules for conduct of elections
 23. Authorised electoral officer
 24. Members taken to have resigned from TSRA in certain circumstances
 25. TSRA Housing Fund
 26. TSRA Land and Natural Resources Fund
 27. Review by Administrative Appeals Tribunal
 28. Schedule 2
 29. Schedule 2A
 30. Repeal of Schedule 2B
 31. Schedule 4
      32. Amendments of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act (No. 3) 1993

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission Amendment Act 1994

No. 100 of 1994

An Act to amend the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission Act 1989, and for related purposes

[Assented to 30 June 1994]

  The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title etc.

1.(1) This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 1994.

(2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 19891.

Commencement

2.(1) Sections 1, 2, 4 and 32 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) The remainder of this Act commences immediately after the commencement of Division 1 of Part 28 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act (No. 3) 1993.

   Note: Division 1 of Part 28 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act (No. 3) 1993 commences on 1 July 1994.

Interpretation

  3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:

    (a) by inserting in the definition of "TSRA election" in subsection (1) "a member or" after "for";

    (b) by omitting from subsection (1) the definitions of "designated number", "eligible number" and