AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ADVISORY COUNCIL ORDINANCE 1965

EPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 2 of 1965

	The Advisory Council Ordinance currently provides that the Advisory Council for the Australian Capital Territory shall consist of eight elected members and four nominated members.

	The four nominated members, have up to the present, included an officer of the Department of Health, an officer of the Department of Works and two officers of the Department of the Interior.

	In view of the role of the National Capital Development Commission in Canberra’s development, it is considered appropriate that the Commission should be represented on the Advisory Council.  It is also desirable that the ratio of elected to non-elected members should be maintained as at present and the Minister has approved, therefore, that section 4 of the Ordinance should be amended to provide for the inclusion of an officer of the National Capital Development Commission, who shall be appointed by the Minister, in the four nominated members of the Advisory Council in place of one of the two appointees from the Department of the Interior.

J.D. ANTHONY