Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 No. 191 of 1976 - SECT 34

34. (1) A Land Council shall prepare estimates, in such form as the Minister
directs, of its expenditure to meet its administrative costs for each
financial year and, if the Minister so directs, for any other period and the
Land Council shall submit those estimates to the Minister for his approval not
later than such date as the Minister directs.

(2) Subject to sub-section (3), moneys of the Land Council shall not be
expended to meet its administrative costs otherwise than in accordance with
estimates of expenditure approved by the Minister.

(3) The amount of the expenditure by a Land Council in relation to the matter
or matters covered by an item in the estimates approved by the Minister may
exceed the amount specified in the item by an amount not exceeding 20 per
centum of the amount so specified.

(4) A reference in this section to the administrative costs of a Land Council
shall be read as including a reference to the cost of paying remuneration and
allowances that are payable under this Act to a member of the Council or of a
Land Trust holding land, or established to hold land, in the area of the
Council.