Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ACT 2005 - SECT 144T

  (1)   The TSRA may engage consultants to the TSRA. A consultant must have suitable qualifications and experience.

  (2)   The terms and conditions on which consultants are engaged are to be determined by the TSRA in writing.

  (3)   The TSRA must, by written instrument:

  (a)   set out criteria for the engagement of consultants by the TSRA; and

  (b)   set out standard terms and conditions for the engagement of consultants by the TSRA.

  (4)   The TSRA must notify the making of an instrument under subsection   ( 3) in the Gazette .

Note 1:   A consultant to the TSRA is not qualified to stand for election, or to be elected, as a member of the TSRA (see paragraph   142V(1)(b)).

Note 2:   The TSRA may declare that a member of the TSRA has become a consultant to the TSRA. The member is taken to have resigned from the TSRA on the date of the declaration (see subsections   143R(3) and (4)).