Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT 1976 No. 191 of 1976 - SECT 38

38. (1) The Minister may, at any time, cause a person having the prescribed
qualifications to inspect and audit the accounts and records caused to be kept
by a Land Council in pursuance of section 37 and to furnish to him a report of
the results of that inspection and audit drawing attention to any irregularity
in the financial affairs of the Council disclosed by that inspection and
audit.

(2) The Minister shall, before an inspection and audit under sub-section (1)
is commenced, by notice in writing served on the Chairman of the Land Council
concerned, inform him that such an inspection and audit will be carried out
and name the person whom he has engaged for the purpose.

(3) Where a notice is served on the Chairman of a Land Council under
sub-section (2), the Chairman shall inform the Council of his receipt of the
notice and, thereupon, the Land Council shall ensure that the person named in
the notice or a person authorized by that person has, for the purposes of the
inspection and audit referred to in the notice, full and free access to all
accounts, records, documents and papers of the Council relevant directly or
indirectly to the payment of money by the Council or to the acquisition,
receipt, custody or disposal of assets by the Council.

(4) A person named in a notice served under sub-section (2) or a person
authorized by him may, for the purpose only of use in the inspection and audit
to which the notice relates, take copies of, or extracts from, such accounts,
records, documents and papers.