Environment and Sustainable
Development Committee
10th
Assembly - Inquiries, Reports and Publications
Inquiries
9th
Assembly - Inquiries, Reports and Publications
Terms of Reference
On
24 August 2005, the Legislative Assembly, by resolution, established the
Sessional Committee on the Environment. The Leader of Government Business
moved
That,
during the present Session of the Assembly -
(1)
The Environment and Sustainable Development Committee shall be empowered,
unless otherwise ordered, to inquire into and from time to time report upon
and make recommendations on matters referred to it by the relevant minister
or resolution of the Legislative Assembly:
(2) The Committee be
empowered to send for persons, papers and records, to sit in public or in
private session notwithstanding any adjournment of the Assembly, to adjourn
from place to place and have leave to report from time to time its proceedings
and the evidence taken and make such interim recommendations as it may deem
fit, and to publish information pertaining to its activities from time to
time;
(3) The Committee be
empowered to consider, disclose and publish the minutes of proceedings,
evidence taken and records of similar committees appointed in previous Assemblies;
(4) The Committee be
empowered to publish from day to day such papers and evidence as may be
ordered by it and, unless otherwise ordered by the Committee, a daily Hansard
be published of such proceedings as to take place in public;
(5) The Committee have
power to appoint subcommittees consisting of two or more of its members
and to refer to any such subcommittee any matter which the Committee is
empowered to examine and that the quorum of a subcommittee shall be two;
and
(6) The foregoing provisions
of this resolution, so far as they are inconsistent with the standing orders,
have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Standing Orders.
Membership
of Committee
Conact
Details
Mr
Terry Hanley
Director Committee Secretariat
Telephone: (08) 8946 1438
Fax: (08) 8981 6158
Email: terry.hanley@nt.gov.au
