Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04677:schedule:4:p2
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Provision Reference: sch 4 (pt 2/31)
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Act made by this Part apply in relation to:

     (a) estimates and draft budgets prepared for the financial year beginning on 1 July 1994 and for each later financial year; and

     (b) estimates prepared for a period other than a financial year, if the period begins on or after 1 July 1994.

Amendments of other Acts consequential upon the establishment of the Torres Strait Regional Authority

80. The Acts specified in Schedule 3 to this Act are amended as set out in that Schedule.

Division 2—Transitional provisions relating to the establishment of the
Torres Strait Regional Authority

Subdivision A—Preparation for the establishment of the Torres Strait
Regional Authority

Torres Strait Regional Council may be known as Torres Strait Regional Authority

81.(1) The Torres Strait Regional Council may be known as the Torres Strait Regional Authority during the period:

    (a) beginning at the start of the election period for the 1994 election for that Regional Council; and

  (b) ending on 30 June 1994.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), it is the intention of the Parliament that the Australian Electoral Commission may, in conducting the 1994 election for the Torres Strait Regional Council, refer to that Regional Council as the Torres Strait Regional Authority.

(3) This section does not apply to a reference to the Torres Strait Regional Authority in a provision of this Act (other than this section) or in any other law of the Commonwealth.

Torres Strait Regional Council may plan the establishment of the Torres Strait Regional Authority

82.(1) In addition to the functions referred to in section 94 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, the Torres Strait Regional Council has the following functions:

  (a) to plan the establishment of the Torres Strait Regional Authority;

    (b) to prepare estimates, in such form as the Minister directs, of the expenditure of the Torres Strait Regional Authority for the financial year beginning on 1 July 1994;

    (c) to give those estimates to the Minister not later than such date as the Minister directs.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply until the end of the election period for the 1994 election for the Torres Strait Regional Council.

Consultation about initial appropriation

  83. The Minister must consult:

  (a) the Commission Chairperson; and

  (b) the Chairperson of the Torres Strait Regional Council; and

  (c) the Commissioner representing the Torres Strait zone;

about the amount proposed to be appropriated to the Commission for the purposes of the Torres Strait Regional Authority for the financial year beginning on 1 July 1994.

Subdivision B—Establishment of the Torres Strait Regional Authority

Interpretation

  84. In this Subdivision, unless the contrary intention appears:

"amended Act" means the Principal Act as amended by this Act;