Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY ACT 1984 No. 41, 1984 - SECT 18

18. (1) Subject to sub-sections (2) and (3), the Minister may, by notice in
writing to the Authority, give directions or furnish guidelines to the
Authority with respect to the performance of its functions and the Authority
shall comply with any such directions or guidelines.

(2) The Minister shall not, without the approval of a resolution passed at a
meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee, being a resolution as to which
all the members of the Committee present at the meeting have voted in favour,
give any directions or furnish any guidelines to the Authority under
sub-section (1) with respect to particular cases.

(3) The Minister shall not give any directions or furnish any guidelines to
the Authority under sub-section (1) with respect to the performance of the
function of the Authority referred to in paragraph 11 (2) (b) unless the
appropriate Minister of the Crown of the State concerned has agreed to the
giving of the directions or the furnishing of the guidelines.

(4) Where the Minister gives a direction or furnishes a guideline to the
Authority under sub-section (1), the Minister shall-

   (a)  as soon as practicable after giving the direction or furnishing the
        guideline, cause a copy of the direction or guideline to be published
        in the Gazette; and

   (b)  cause a copy of the direction or guideline to be laid before each
        House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the
        copy is published in the Gazette.