38AReference to Commonwealth ministers etc.

38A Reference to Commonwealth ministers etc. (1) Notwithstanding section 38, where in a provision of an Act reference is made to a Commonwealth minister or department or to an office, officer, body corporate or body of persons established by or under an Act of the Commonwealth, that reference shall be read as or as including a reference to such minister, department, office, officer or body, whether Commonwealth or Territory, as is determined by the Administrator by notice published in the Gazette. (2) Where in a provision of an Act reference is made to a Commonwealth minister or department and there is no longer any such minister or department and no determination has been made under subsection (1), that reference shall be read as a reference to the minister for the time being administering the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 of the Commonwealth, or to the department of that minister, as the case may be.