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be affected by the doing of the act or thing has been consulted and has had adequate opportunity to express its views to the Land Council,
     then, if that power is delegated to another person, the person to whom it is delegated may exercise the power if the delegate is satisfied—
          (c) of the matter referred to in paragraph (a); and
          (d) that any Aboriginal community or group that may be affected by the doing of the act or thing has been consulted and has had adequate opportunity to express its views to the delegate.".
20. After section 29 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Committees
"29a. (1) A Land Council may appoint a committee or committees of its members to assist the Council in relation to the performance of any of its functions.
"(2) The Land Council may give such directions as it thinks fit with respect to the procedure to be followed at, and in relation to, meetings of a committee appointed under this section.".

Application of money of Land Council
21. (1) Section 35 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) "of their receipt" and substituting "after the end of the financial year in which they are received";
     (b) by inserting in paragraph (2) (b) ", or are the traditional Aboriginal owners of," after "live in";
     (c) by omitting from sub-section (3) "Moneys paid to a Land Council under an agreement made under section 43 or 44" and substituting "Within 6 months after moneys are paid to a Land Council under an agreement made under section 43 or 44, they";
     (d) by inserting in sub-section (4) ", within 6 months after that payment is received," after "the Land Council shall"; and
     (e) by adding at the end the following sub-sections:
     "(5) Where a Land Council has not, before the expiration of the period specified in sub-section (1), (2) or (3), disbursed any amount that it is, under that sub-section, required to disburse because it has not been able to make a determination under that sub-section, the Land Council shall, as soon as practicable after the expiration of that period, but not later than one month after the expiration of that period, give to the Minister a report, in writing, setting out its reasons for not having made that determination.
     "(6) Where the Minister receives a report from a Land Council under sub-section (5), the Minister may, after having regard to the matters set out in that report and to any other matters that the Minister considers relevant, make a determination in relation to the amount to which the report relates, being a determination that could have been made by