TOTAL RESULTS: 61

• Final Senate Bills List for 1996

  Date

  31/12/1996 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Summary

  AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1996 (1996 Final Edition ) SAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Bill 1996 To amend the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment Act (No. 3) 1993 in relation to: reduction of membership of regional councils; councils’ powers, administration and financial arrangements; management of ATSIC and selection and appointment of the Chairperson; restriction on the right to dispose of property; appointment of an administrator in relation to the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA); the functions of the Office of Torres Strait Islander Affairs to monitor programs and policies of the TSRA; TSRA requests to the Office of Evaluation and Audit (OEA) to evaluate and audit TSRA operations; the compulsive powers of the OEA in certain investigations; secrecy provisions and authorisation of solicitors or agents to obtain certain information from ATSIC; notification of pecuniary interests by the General Manager of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commercial Development Corporation (CDC) to the Minister and Chairperson of the Board of CDC in certain circumstances. Senate: Intro. 23/5/96; Passed 26/6/96 SBC report 3/96 (30/5/96): Referred to Finance and Public