Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Commonwealth Minister must, in respect of each Joint Authority:
(a) appoint a person to be the secretary of the Joint Authority; and
(b) make arrangements for the provision of appropriate services in respect of the Authority.
(2) A person appointed under subsection (1) to be the secretary of a Joint Authority must be an AFMA staff member if the Joint Authority is to manage, or is managing, a fishery in accordance with the law of the Commonwealth.
(3) The Commonwealth Minister must cause written records to be kept of the decisions of a Joint Authority.
(4) Such a record, if signed by the Commonwealth Minister, or deputy of the Commonwealth Minister, who took part in or made the decision, is prima facie evidence that the decision, as recorded, was duly made.
(5) In proceedings in any court, an instrument or other document signed, on behalf of a Joint Authority, by a member of that Joint Authority, is taken to be duly executed by the Joint Authority and, unless the contrary is proved, is taken to be in accordance with a decision of the Joint Authority.