EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Northern Territory National Emergency Response (Other Areas – Daly River Region) Declaration 2009 (No. 1)
Summary
The Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (the Emergency Response Act) provides for special emergency measures to apply in prescribed areas. These measures relate to the sale and consumption of alcohol, the requirement to audit publicly funded computers and the licensing of community stores.
The term prescribed area is defined in section 4 of the Emergency Response Act and covers the areas in subsection 4(2). Paragraph 4(4)(a) provides that the Commonwealth Minister may declare that an area in the Northern Territory that would otherwise be covered by subsection 4(2) is not a prescribed area.
The Northern Territory National Emergency Response (Other Areas – Daly River Region) Declaration 2009 (No. 1) (the Declaration) provides that certain areas around the Daly River are not prescribed areas. This means that the Emergency Response measures which apply in prescribed areas do not apply in relation to those areas.
Explanation of the provisions
Section 1 of the Declaration provides that it is called the Northern Territory National Emergency Response (Other Areas – Daly River Region) Declaration 2009 (No. 1).
Section 2 provides that the Declaration commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
Section 3 provides that each area listed in Schedule 1 of the Declaration is not a prescribed area.
Consultation
Consultation was undertaken with Amateur Fishermen’s Association Northern Territory, Malak Malak Land Trust, local land and business owners, the Northern Land Council, NT Department Health and Families, NT Department Justice, NT Police, the relevant Government Business Manager and the Commercial and Indigenous Law Branch of FaHCSIA were consulted in the preparation of this declaration. There were no objections from the parties consulted in relation to these requests.