New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS ACT 1983 - SECT 62

62 Functions of Boards of Local Aboriginal Land Councils

(1) A Board of a Local Aboriginal Land Council has the following functions--

(a) to direct and control the affairs of the Council,

(b) to facilitate communication between the Council's members and the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council,

(c) to review the performance of the Council in the exercise of its functions and the achievement of its objectives,

(c1) without limiting paragraph (a), to enter into short-term residential tenancy agreements in relation to land vested in the Council and to manage or terminate such agreements,

(d) any other functions conferred on the Board by or under this Act.

(1A) Without limiting subsection (1), a Board of a Local Aboriginal Land Council may, subject to any directions of the Council, exercise--

(a) any of the functions of the Council on behalf of the Council, other than any function that under this or any other Act that is expressly required to be exercised by resolution of the voting members of the Council, and

(b) any function delegated to the Board under section 52E.

(2) The functions of the Board of a Local Aboriginal Land Council are to be exercised in accordance with this Act and the regulations and consistently with the community, land and business plan of the Council.