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Schedule 2—Amendment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Commission Act 1989                              861

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 1996

No. 35, 1996

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

[Assented to 12 September 1996]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

      This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 1996.

2 Commencement

  (1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

      (2) If this Act does not receive the Royal Assent on or before 12 September 1996, item 4 of Schedule 1 commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

      (3) If item 4 of Schedule 1 does not commence under subsection (2) within 6 months after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, that item commences on the first day after the end of that period.

      (4) Item 68 in Schedule 1 commences on the 28th day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

      (5) Schedule 2 commences on the day, or the earliest day, on which the Minister appoints a person as a Commissioner after the person has been elected in the 1999 round of Regional Council elections.

       3 Schedule(s)

      Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

    Schedule 1—Amendment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989

    Subsection 4(1) (definition of Commission Chairperson)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

     Commission Chairperson means the Chairperson of the Commission referred to in paragraph 27(1)(a).

2 Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

elected Commissioner means a member of the Commission referred to in paragraph 27(1)(b).

3 Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

   non-elected Commissioner means the member of the Commission referred to in paragraph 27(1)(c).

4 Subsection 4(1) (table in definition of prescribed number)
Repeal the table, substitute:

Estimated population of region            Prescribed number
not more than 1,000                       8
more than 1,000 but not more than 4,000   9
more than 4,000 but not more than 7,000   10
more than 7,000 but not more than 10,000  11
more than 10,000                          12

5 Transitional

  (1) This item applies only if this Act receives the Royal Assent on or before 12 September 1996.

  (2) The amendment made by item 4 extends to the round of Regional Council elections for which the election period started on 12 July 1996 (the current round of Regional Council elections),

  (3) The Regional Council Election Rules are amended by repealing