South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

ABORIGINAL LANDS TRUST ACT 1966 - SECT 6

6—Membership of Trust

        (1)         The Trust shall consist of a chairman and at least two other members appointed by the Governor: Provided that the Governor may whenever he thinks it fit so to do appoint additional members upon the recommendation of Aboriginal councils established pursuant to regulations made under the Community Welfare Act 1972 , as amended, and of such Aboriginal communities as are recognised as such by the Minister and the members of which ordinarily reside on land owned by the Trust; but no such council or community may recommend more than one member for the Trust at any one time and thereafter shall only recommend a member to fill a vacancy caused by the vacation of office by or retirement of a person whom it has previously recommended. Each member of the Trust shall be an Aboriginal within the meaning of the Community Welfare Act 1972 , as amended.

        (2)         The chairman and other members of the Trust shall, subject to this Act, hold office for three years.

        (3)         Any member of the Trust may at the expiration of his term of office be re-appointed.

        (4)         Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of a member of the Trust whether by expiration of his term of office or otherwise the Governor may, subject to subsection (1) of this section, appoint a person to fill the vacancy: Provided that the person appointed to fill a vacancy caused otherwise than by the expiration of the term of office of a member shall hold office only for the unexpired portion of the term of office of the member in whose place he is appointed: Provided further that any retiring member whose term of office expires by effluxion of time shall hold office until his successor is appointed.

        (5)         The Governor may appoint a person as the deputy of a member of the Trust and a person so appointed may, in the absence of the member of whom he or she is deputy, act as a member of the Trust and exercise and perform the powers and functions of that member.

        (6)         Where the appointment of a member of the Trust is on the recommendation of a community, the appointment of a person as the deputy of the member must also be on the recommendation of that community.

        (7)         An act done or purported to have been done by a person as a deputy of a member may not be called into question on the ground that the occasion for the person's so acting had not arisen or had ceased.