6Declaration of Aboriginal Councils or Island Councils for the purposes of this Act

6 Declaration of Aboriginal Councils or Island Councils for the purposes of this Act

(1) If, at any time: (a) there is not in existence for a Reserve to which this Act applies, or for a Community to which this Act applies, a Council of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of Council in section 3; or (b) there is in existence for a Reserve to which this Act applies, or for a Community to which this Act applies, a Council of that kind, but the Minister is of the opinion that he or she should exercise his or her powers under this section to declare another body to be the Council for the Reserve or the Community; the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare a body specified in the declaration to be the Council for the Reserve or for the Community, as the case may be, for the purpose of this Act. (2) A declaration under subsection (1) does not cease to have effect by reason that, after the making of the declaration, another body is established, or purports to be established, under or by the Aborigines Act or the Torres Strait Islanders Act as the Aboriginal Council for the Reserve or Community, or the Island Council for the Reserve or Community, as the case may be, to which the declaration relates. (3) A body specified in a declaration made by the Minister under subsection (1) may be a body constituted, for the purposes of this section, under or by the regulations.