Interpretation Act 1978

Subject to this section, a provision of an Act that confers upon the Administrator a power or function shall not be read as requiring, permitting or enabling the Administrator to exercise that power or perform that function except with the advice of the Executive

Council.

The Administrator may, without reference to the Executive

Council:

exercise a power to fix a date for the bringing into operation of an Act or subordinate legislation or provisions of an Act or subordinate legislation; or

exercise any other power or perform any function that the

Administrator, with the advice of the Executive Council, determines, by notice in the Gazette, to be a power that may be exercised, or a function that may be performed, as the case may be, by the

Administrator without reference to the Executive Council.

The Administrator may, without reference to the Executive

Council:

exercise any power where the exercise of that power relates only to; or

perform any function where the performance of that function relates only to,

matters in respect of which the Ministers of the Territory do not have executive authority under section 35 of the Northern

Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 of the Commonwealth.