Department of the Legislative Assembly, Northern Territory Government

Sport and Youth

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Terms of Reference

(1) The Sessional Committee on Sport and Youth be empowered, unless otherwise ordered, to inquire into and report on the delivery of sporting programs for the Territory's youth, in particular:

(a) the ability and effectiveness of existing structures and programs, from grassroots to elite, to deliver in urban, regional and remote areas, and recommendations for improvement;
(b) the role and benefit of School Sport NT programs and links to participation; and
(c) demonstrated links between participation in sport and reduced antisocial behaviour; and

(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 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;

(4) 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

(5) 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.

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Media Releases

Call for Submissions by 2 June 2006
Delivering Sport for Youth in the Northern Territory 

Publications

Information Brochure on Making Submissions
Sessional Committee on Sport and Youth appointed for the life of the Tenth Assembly, Volume 1 - Synopses of Evidence to the Committee, October 2008
Sessional Committee on Sport and Youth appointed for the life of the Tenth Assembly, Volume 2 - Submissions to the Committee, October 2008

Last updated: 23 Aug 2016