Local Government Act 1993

The Code of Conduct Panel is established.

The Minister is to appoint as members of the Code of Conduct Panel as many of the following persons as the Minister considers appropriate:Australian lawyers; persons who have experience in local government but who are not current councillors or employees of any council.

Before appointing persons to be members of the Code of Conduct Panel, the Minister may give notice, in any manner he or she considers appropriate, that persons interested in being members may provide written expressions of interest to the Minister.

Schedule 2A applies in relation to the members of the Code of Conduct Panel.

The instrument of appointment of a member of the Code of Conduct Panel may include conditions of appointment that are not inconsistent with Schedule 2A.

Without limiting the conditions of appointment that may be included in an instrument of appointment under subsection (5), a member of the Code of Conduct Panel must undergo such training in respect of diversity and inclusion as is specified in the instrument of appointment.