(1) The staff required to assist Aboriginal Hostels Limited in the performance of its functions shall, in spite of anything in the constituent documents of Aboriginal Hostels Limited, be persons engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 .
(2) For the purposes of the Public Service Act 1999 :
(a) the Chief Executive Officer of Aboriginal Hostels Limited, and the APS employees assisting Aboriginal Hostels Limited, together constitute a Statutory Agency; and
(b) the Chief Executive Officer of Aboriginal Hostels Limited is the Head of that Statutory Agency.
(6) For the purposes of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 , if Aboriginal Hostels Limited makes a decision relating to an application by an incorporated body for the provision of accommodation for one or more Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islanders, the decision is taken to be a decision of an administrative character made under an enactment.
(7) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, enter into an agreement with Aboriginal Hostels Limited.
(8) The Minister must cause notice of the making of the agreement to be published in the Gazette .
(9) An agreement between the Commonwealth and Aboriginal Hostels Limited that was in force immediately before the commencement of this subsection is taken to have been made under subsection (7).