Northern Territory Numbered Acts

OMBUDSMAN ACT 2009 (NO 5 OF 2009) - SECT 6

    (1)     "Administrative action" is any action about a matter of administration, and includes:

    (a)     a decision or act; and

    (b)     a failure to make a decision or do an act; and

    (c)     the formulation of a proposal or intention; and

    (d)     the making of a recommendation, including a recommendation made to the Administrator or a minister; and

    (e)     a decision or act taken in consequence of the making of a recommendation.

    (2)     Administrative action of a public authority includes:

    (a)     administrative action taken by, in or for the authority; and

    (b)     administrative action taken by or for an officer of the authority in relation to or incidental to the exercise or purported exercise of a power, or performance or purported performance of a function, of the authority or officer; and

    (c)     administrative action taken for, or in relation to or incidental to the performance of functions conferred on, the authority, by an entity that is not a public authority, including for example, by an entity under a contract.

    (3)     Subsection (2)(a) applies even if the action is taken by a public authority wholly or partly for an entity that is not a public authority.

    (4)     For subsection (2)(c), the action is taken to be administrative action of the public authority.