14CBoards

##### 14C Boards (1) Where: (a) an area of Aboriginal land is situated wholly or partly within a prescribed park or reserve; and (b) the Minister and the relevant Council in relation to the land: (i) agree that a Board should be established for that park or reserve; and (ii) agree on the matters to be specified, in accordance with subsection (2), in the notice in respect of the Board; the Minister shall, by notice published in the Gazette, establish a Board for that park or reserve. (2) A notice under subsection (1) establishing a Board shall: (a) specify the park or reserve for which the Board is established; (b) specify the name by which the Board is to be known; (c) specify the number of persons who are to constitute the Board; and (d) subject to subsection (5), specify, in relation to each office of member of the Board, the preconditions that a person must satisfy in order to be eligible for appointment to that office. (3) Subject to subsection (6), the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, revoke a notice under subsection (1) in relation to a Board. (4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend, or further amend, a notice under subsection (1) in relation to a Board so as to: (a) change the specification of the name by which the Board is to be known; (b) increase the number of persons who are to constitute the Board and specify, in relation to each additional office of member of the Board so created, the preconditions that a person must satisfy in order to be eligible for appointment to that office; (c) decrease the number of persons who are to constitute the Board and specify which office or offices of member of the Board is or are abolished; or (d) change the specification, in relation to an office of member of the Board, of the preconditions that a person must satisfy in order to be eligible for appointment to that office. (5) Where a Board is established for a park or reserve that consists wholly of Aboriginal land, a majority of the members of the Board shall be Aboriginals nominated by the traditional Aboriginal owners of that Aboriginal land. (6) Where a Board is established for a park or reserve, the Minister shall not revoke, amend or further amend a notice under subsection (1) in relation to that park or reserve unless the relevant Council in relation to the Aboriginal land situated in that park or reserve has agreed to the revocation, amendment or further amendment, as the case requires. (7) Where the Minister, under subsection (4), amends or further amends a notice under subsection (1) in relation to a Board so as to alter the name of the Board or so as to alter the constitution of the Board, section 25B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 applies in relation to that alteration as if the alteration had been made by an Act. (8) The performance of the functions and the exercise of the powers of a Board are not affected by a vacancy or vacancies in the membership of the Board.