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Interpretation Act 1978
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34 References to Administrator
(1) Subject to this section, a provision of an Act that confers upon the
Administrator a power or function shall not be read as requiring,
permitting or enabling the Administrator to exercise that power or
perform that function except with the advice of the Executive
Council.
(2) The Administrator may, without reference to the Executive Council:
(a) exercise a power to fix a date for the bringing into operation of
an Act or subordinate legislation or provisions of an Act or
subordinate legislation; or
(b) exercise any other power or perform any function that the
Administrator, with the advice of the Executive Council,
determines, by notice in the Gazette, to be a power that may
be exercised, or a function that may be performed, as the
case may be, by the Administrator without reference to the
Executive Council.
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(3) The Administrator may, without reference to the Executive Council:
(a) exercise any power where the exercise of that power relates
only to; or
(b) perform any function where the performance of that function
relates only to,
matters in respect of which the Ministers of the Territory do not
have executive authority under section 35 of the Northern Territory
(Self-Government) Act 1978 of the Commonwealth.