177   Codes of conduct

(cf section 440 of Local Government Act 1993)

(1)  Every Local Aboriginal Land Council must, within such period as the Registrar directs, prepare and submit to the Registrar for approval a code of conduct to be observed by all officers and members of staff of the Council.

(2)  The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council must, within such period as the Registrar directs, prepare and submit to the Registrar for approval a code of conduct to be observed by all councillors and members of staff of the Council.

(3)  An Aboriginal Land Council may, with the approval of the Registrar, amend or replace its code of conduct.

(4)  The Registrar may prepare and issue a model code of conduct. A Council may, but need not, adopt the model code.

(5)  A code of conduct prepared in accordance with this section may declare that the breach of a specified provision of the code (a dismissal provision):

(a)  by a Board member of a Local Aboriginal Land Council—allows the Council by majority vote to remove that person from office, or

(b)  (Repealed)

(c)  by a councillor of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council—causes a councillor to vacate his or her office as councillor.

(6)  Until a code of conduct for an Aboriginal Land Council is approved by the Registrar in accordance with this section, the code of conduct prescribed by the regulations is the code of conduct for that Aboriginal Land Council.