Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered ActsThe objects of this Part are:
(a) to recognise the importance of parents and communities in the governance of Government schools; and
(b) for that purpose, to provide for the establishment and operation of school representative bodies and require principals of Government schools to take reasonable steps to establish them; and
(c) to recognise that independent public school boards are accountable to their local communities for the achievement of educational outcomes for children and young persons in those communities; and
(d) to provide for the establishment of a parent consultative group at a Government school at which there is not a school representative body and at which it is not reasonably practicable for one to be established.
Division 2 School representative bodies