Mowanjum Community By-laws 2005 (WA)

Western Australia Aboriginal Communities Act 1979 Mowanjum Community By-laws 2005 Western Australia Mowanjum Community By-laws 2005 Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. How the Governing Council makes decisions 1 3. Giving and refusing permission 2 4. Who can be on the community lands 2 5. Places that are out of bounds 3 6. Driving and traffic control 3 7. Fires 4 8. Damaging other people's things 4 9. Other people's houses 4 10. Alcohol and drugs 4 11. Bad behaviour 5 12. Guns 5 13. Police powers 6 14. Offences against these by‑laws 6 Notes Compilation table 8 Western Australia Aboriginal Communities Act 1979 Mowanjum Community By-laws 2005

1. Introduction (1) These are the Mowanjum Community By-laws 2005. (2) These by-laws have been made by the Governing Council of the association called Mowanjum Aboriginal Corporation and approved by the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator. (3) The Mowanjum Aboriginal Corporation is an Aboriginal community to which the Aboriginal Communities Act 1979 applies. (4) As that Act says, these by-laws apply to you if you are on the community lands of that Aboriginal community and it does not matter if you are a member of the community or not. (5) Under that Act the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator has said which lands are the community lands of the community. (6) You are a member of the community if you are a member of the Corporation under its constitution. (7) These by-laws are in addition to the laws of Western Australia.

2. How the Governing Council makes decisions (1) When it is making a decision under these by-laws the Governing Council will consider the welfare of the community as the most important consideration. (2) The Governing Council does not have to give reasons for any of its decisions under these by-laws. (3) The Governing Council can tell you about a decision it has made under these by-laws by speaking or writing to you or by putting up a notice of it in a public place on the community lands.