Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00836:section:17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00836
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 17
Character Range: 17949–18936

17  Times of meetings
 (1) Subject to subsection (3), the Assembly shall meet:
 (a) within 7 days after the result of a general election is declared; and
 (b) within 7 days after a written request for a meeting, signed by such number of members as is fixed by enactment, is delivered to the Presiding Officer.
 (2) The Presiding Officer shall, by notice published in the Territory Gazette, convene a meeting when it is necessary to do so to comply with subsection (1).
 (3) If the Presiding Officer is required by subsection (2) to convene a meeting within a particular period and:
 (a) the office of Presiding Officer is vacant, whether or not a person has been previously elected to the office; or
 (b) the Presiding Officer is unable, or refuses or fails, to convene a meeting within that period;
the Commonwealth Minister shall, by notice published in the Commonwealth Gazette, convene the meeting within that period or, if that is not practicable, within 7 days after that period.