Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CORPORATIONS (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) ACT 2006 - SECT 265.45

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a director of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation relies on information, or professional or expert advice, given or prepared by:

  (i)   an employee of the corporation whom the director believes on reasonable grounds to be reliable and competent in relation to the matters concerned; or

  (ii)   a professional adviser or expert in relation to matters that the director believes on reasonable grounds to be within the person's professional or expert competence; or

  (iii)   another director or officer in relation to matters within the director's or officer's authority; or

  (iv)   a committee of directors on which the director did not serve in relation to matters within the committee's authority; and

  (b)   the reliance was made:

  (i)   in good faith; and

  (ii)   after making an independent assessment of the information or advice, having regard to the director's knowledge of the corporation and the complexity of the structure and operations of the corporation; and

  (c)   the reasonableness of the director's reliance on the information or advice arises in proceedings brought to determine whether a director has performed a duty under this Part or an equivalent general law duty;

the director's reliance on the information or advice is taken to be reasonable unless the contrary is proved.

  (2)   To avoid doubt, a person may be considered an expert in relation to questions of traditional laws and customs.