Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) The CEO may prepare and publish guidelines, not inconsistent with this Act, for or in relation to the performance by school representative bodies of functions conferred on them by this Act.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), guidelines may be made about the following matters:
(a) regulating the establishment of committees to help a school representative body perform its functions;
(b) regulating the calling of meetings of:
(i) school representative bodies or committees mentioned in paragraph (a); or
(ii) parents and teachers;
(c) regulating proceedings and voting at meetings mentioned in paragraph (b);
(d) accountability requirements;
(e) regulating:
(i) a school representative body's provision of meals or refreshments for the staff or students of the school, or any of the schools, for which the body is established; and
(ii) the amounts the body may charge for providing those meals or refreshments;
(f) subject to section 111 , regulating:
(i) the manner in which a school representative body is to keep proper accounts of any money received by the body and any dealings with that money; and
(ii) the auditing of those accounts;
(g) the respective functions of the principal, the teachers and the school representative body, and how their functions relate to each other;
(h) without limiting paragraph (g), prohibiting a school representative body, or a member of such a body when acting in that capacity, from directing teachers in relation to their professional duties;
(i) prohibiting members of a school representative body from being financially interested, directly or indirectly, in work carried out for, or services rendered for the benefit of, the school, or any of the schools, for which it is established:
(i) if the work or services are authorised by the body; and
(ii) unless each financial interest is approved by the CEO.