BILLS › Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011
Senator CHRIS EVANS (Western Australia—Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (01:41): I move government amendment (1) on sheet BW233: (1) Schedule 2, item 4, page 11 (line 18), omit "and at the Land Council's expense". This is in relation to community land areas. The bill seeks to introduce a function for land councils to provide legal or administrative assistance to community living area landowners in relation to dealings in land, if requested to do so. We are moving an amendment to remove the words 'and at the land council's expense' from the relevant provision to clarify that, while the assistance will not be at the cost of the landowner, the land council is able to recoup these costs. I think it is a fairly minor amendment and I would appreciate the support of the Senate.