Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1985 No. 346 NORTHERN TERRITORY (SELF GOVERNMENT) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 1

1. After regulation 4 of the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Regulations
the following regulation is inserted: Public availability of copies of
agreements and arrangements

"4A. (1) In this regulation, 'Secretary' means the Secretary of the Department
of the Chief Minister of the Territory.

"(2) The Secretary shall cause a copy of each agreement or arrangement of a
kind referred to in paragraph 4 (5) (f) to be available for public inspection
at the principal office of the Secretary while that office is open to the
public.

"(3) A person may inspect, without fee, a copy of an agreement or arrangement
made available for public inspection under sub-regulation (2).

"(4) Where a person requests the Secretary to supply the person with a copy of
an agreement or arrangement referred to in sub-regulation (2), the Secretary
shall cause the person to be supplied, without charge, with that copy.

"(5) Where the Secretary has, under sub-regulation (4), supplied a copy of an
agreement or arrangement to a person, the Secretary shall be under no further
obligation to supply any further copies of that agreement or arrangement to
that person.

"(6) Failure by the Secretary to comply with a provision of this regulation in
relation to an agreement or arrangement referred to in sub-regulation (2) does
not affect the operation of sub-regulation 4 (5) in relation to that agreement
or arrangement.".