Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) The CEO must ensure that proper minutes of meetings of an audit committee, a council, a council committee and a local authority are kept.
(2) The minutes must be in writing and:
(a) must set out:
(i) the names of the members present at the meeting; and
(ii) the business transacted at the meeting; and
(iii) any confidential business that was considered at the meeting; and
(iv) any other information required by regulation; and
(b) must include references to any written reports or recommendations considered in the course of the meeting together with information about how to obtain access to the reports or recommendations.
(3) The audit committee, council, council committee or local authority must, at its next meeting, or next ordinary meeting, confirm the minutes (with or without amendment), including any confidential business considered at the meeting, as a correct record of the meeting.
(4) The minutes of an audit committee, a council committee or a local authority must be tabled at the next meeting of the council.
(5) The minutes of a local authority must be included in the agenda for the next ordinary meeting of the council and the council's response to those minutes must be recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the council.
(6) The council must report back to the local authority on its response to the local authority's minutes.