Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Amendment (Strengthening Land and Governance Provisions) Act 2023 (57 of 2023)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1   Amendments

Aboriginal Land Grant (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986

27   After section 33

Insert:

33A Registrar to be the administrator of the Council if all executive members are removed from office

(1) If all executive members are removed from office under subsection 33(3), the Registrar is to be the administrator of the Council during the period (the interim period ):

(a) beginning at the time of that removal from office; and

(b) ending at the start of the first meeting of the executive committee that is held after that removal from office.

Note: See also subsection 29(3A), which is about elections to be held following the removal from office of all executive members.

(2) During the interim period, the Registrar may perform any of the functions, and exercise any of the powers, of the Council or the executive committee.

(3) All acts and things done during the interim period in the name of, or on behalf of, the Council by the Registrar are to be taken to have been done by the Council.

(4) All acts and things done during the interim period in the name of, or on behalf of, the executive committee by the Registrar are to be taken to have been done by the executive committee.

(5) During the interim period:

(a) for the purposes of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, the accountable authority of the Council consists of:

(i) the Registrar; and

(ii) the Chief Executive Officer; and

(b) section 4A of this Act does not apply.

(6) This section does not authorise the Registrar to exercise a power conferred by section 38 or 39.