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after the end of each subsequent financial year, give to the Land Council in the area in which the members of that community or group live a copy of the relevant financial statements in respect of that financial year.
"(2) In sub-section (1), 'relevant financial statements', in relation to an incorporated Aboriginal community or group and to a particular financial year, means the financial statements that that community or group is required, under the law under which it is incorporated, to lodge in respect of that financial year.".
23. After section 37 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Interim financial reports
"37aa. (1) Where the Minister is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so, the Minister may, by notice in writing given to a Land Council, require the Land Council to submit to the Minister such financial statements, or such statements of expenditure, relating to the Land Council, prepared in accordance with normal accounting practices, as are specified in the notice.
"(2) A Land Council shall comply with a requirement made under sub-section (1).".

Annual reports by Land Councils
24. Section 37a of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
     "(1a) Each report prepared under sub-section (1) shall include particulars of the determinations (if any) made by the Land Council under sub-section 35 (1), (2), (3) or (3a), or by the Minister under sub-section 35 (6), during the financial year to which the report relates."; and

     (b) by adding at the end the following sub-section:
     "(3) The Minister shall cause a copy of a report and financial statements furnished under sub-section (1) to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the Minister receives that report and those financial statements.".

Functions of Commissioner
25. Section 50 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-sections:
"(2a) A Commissioner shall not perform a function under paragraph (1) (a) in respect of an application made after the expiration of 10 years after the commencement of this sub-section.
"(2b) Where—
     (a) an application referred to in paragraph (1) (a) has been made to a Commissioner;
     (b) it appears to the Commissioner that the land to which the application relates is, in whole or part, the same as the whole or part of land to which an earlier application related; and
     (c) the report made under sub-paragraph (1) (a) (ii) in relation to the earlier application made no recommendation as mentioned in that sub-paragraph in relation to that land,
the Commissioner shall not perform, or continue to perform, a function under paragraph (1) (a) in relation