Environment
and Sustainable Development Committee
11th
Assembly
Environmental
Sustainability of Tropical Aquaculture in the Northern Territory
Transcript
- DRDPIFR - 24 November 2008
Supplementary
Answer - DRDPIFR
Transcript - NRETAS - 13 May 2009
The Northern Territory's capacity to progress agricultural production in an environmentally sustainable manner
Call for Written
Submissions
Submission from the Department of Regional Development, Primary Industry, Fisheries and Resources
Submission from the Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport
Reference
Reference from Minister for Natural Resources, Environment
and Heritage, dated 15 September 2008
Appointment of Membership
That, during the present Session of the
Assembly:
(1)
A Sessional Committee to be known as the Environment and Sustainable Development
Committee be appointed;
(2) The membership of the Environment and Sustainable
Development Committee comprise three government members, two members of the opposition
and one independent member;
(3) The following members, unless otherwise
ordered, be appointed to the Committee: Ms Walker, Mr Gunner, Mr McCarthy, Mr
Chandler, Mr Styles and Mr G Wood; and
(4) The Committee shall elect
a government member as Chairman.
Establishment
of Environment and Sustainable Development Committee - Terms of Reference
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.
