New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS ACT 1983 - SECT 117

117 Rules of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council

(1) The purpose of this section is to provide rules for the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council relating to the Council's functions and operations.

(2) The rules prescribed by the regulations as model rules are the rules for the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council.

(3) However, the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council may prepare its own rules and submit them to the Registrar for approval.

(4) On approval by the Registrar, the rules prepared by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, to the extent that they are not inconsistent with this Act or the regulations, become the rules of the Council to the exclusion of the model rules.

(5) The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council's rules may, with the approval of the Registrar, be amended, repealed or replaced from time to time.

(6) The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council may appeal to the Court against the Registrar's refusal to approve of rules or to approve of an amendment, a repeal or a replacement of its rules.

(7) On the hearing of an appeal under subsection (6), the Court may direct the Registrar to approve of rules, or an amendment, a repeal or a replacement of rules, specified in the direction.