Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment (TSRA) Bill 1997
First Reading

1996-97

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

THE SENATE

Presented and read a first time

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment (TSRA) Bill 1997

No. , 1997

(Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 in relation to the TSRA budget, and for related purposes

9707820--1,043/16.6.1997--(78/97) Cat. No. 96 9126 X ISBN 0644 504218

Contents

1       Short title

2       Commencement

3       Schedule(s)

Schedule 1--Amendments relating to TSRA budget       

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989       

A Bill for an Act to amend the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 in relation to the TSRA budget, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

        This Act may be cited as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Amendment (TSRA) Act 1997.

2 Commencement

        This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s)

        Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1--Amendments relating to TSRA budget

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989

1 Subsections 58(2) and (3)

Repeal the subsections.

2 Paragraph 61(7)(c)

Omit "or" (last occurring).

3 Paragraphs 61(7)(d) and 63(4)(fa)

Repeal the paragraphs.

4 Paragraph 66(2)(c)

Omit "or" (last occurring).

5 Paragraph 66(2)(d)

Repeal the paragraph.

6 Before section 144U

Insert in Division 9 of Part 3A:

144TA Money payable to TSRA

       (1) There is payable to the TSRA such money as the Parliament appropriates from time to time for the TSRA.

       (2) The Minister for Finance may give directions as to the amounts in which, and the times at which, money so appropriated is to be paid to the TSRA.

7 Subsection 144ZA(2)

Omit "section 58", substitute "section 144TA".

8 Application

The amendments made by items 1 to 7 apply in relation to the financial year beginning on 1 July 1997 and later financial years.