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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act 1993

No. 26 of 1993

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section
 1. Short title etc.
 2. Commencement
 3. Interpretation
 4. Repeal of section and substitution of new section:
       27. Constitution of the Commission
 5. Repeal of section 28
 6. Repeal of section and substitution of new section:
       30. Basis of holding office
 7. Deputy Chairperson of Commission
 8. Periods of appointment
 9. Leave of absence
10. Acting appointments
11. Resignation
12. Termination of appointment
13. Regions
14. Persons qualified to be elected to Regional Councils
15. Polling places
16. Fixing of election days, and location of polling places, to be notified in the Gazette
17. Rules for conduct of elections
18. Persons taken to have resigned from Regional Councils in certain circumstances
19. Chairperson and Executive Committee

TABLE OF PROVISIONS—continued

Section
 20. Insertion of new sections:

       127A. Provisions relating to Chairpersons
       127B. Resignation of Chairpersons
       127C. Termination of appointment of Chairpersons
       127D. Leave of absence for Chairpersons
 21. Zone elections
 22. Rules for conduct of elections
 23. Schedule 1
 24. Transitional provision for the original 60 Regional Councils

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission Amendment Act 1993

No. 26 of 1993

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

[Assented to 9 June 1993]

  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 1993.

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

Commencement

2.(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), section 6 commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

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

Interpretation

  3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting "subsection 27(3)" from the definition of "elected Commissioner" in subsection (1) and substituting "subsection 27(2)";

     (b) by omitting the definition of "non-elected Commissioner" from subsection (1) and substituting the following definition:

     " 'non-elected Commissioner' means a Commissioner chosen by the Minister under subsection 27(3);".

Repeal of section and substitution of new section

4.(1) Section 27 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:

Constitution of the Commission

"27.(1) The Commission consists of a Chairperson and 18 other members appointed by the Minister.

"(2) Seventeen of the members are to be the persons elected under Division 7 of Part