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former Waipawa Borough Council on the 31st day of March 1978.

16. All other administrative accounts, works and services accounts and special fund accounts of the uniting authorities at the date of union shall be merged to operate as accounts of the district council.

Provided that all special funds shall be expended only for the purposes for which they were set aside and for the benefit only of the area from which they originated.

PETROLEUM TAX

17. For the purposes of the Local Authorities (Petroleum Tax) Act 1970, the district council shall be the successor of the uniting authorities.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

18. Except as otherwise provided in this scheme the provisions of section 10 of the Counties Act 1956 (which relates to the succession to assets, liabilities, engagements, and bylaws of united counties) shall apply as if the districts of both the uniting authorities were counties.

19. All property, real and personal, vested in the uniting authorities shall, subject to all existing encumbrances, vest in the district council.

DISTRICT PLANNING SCHEMES

20. The district planning schemes, scheme statements, and codes of ordinances in force in the districts of the uniting authorities immediately prior to union shall be deemed to be the district planning scheme, scheme statement, and code of ordinances of the district council; and the district council shall not be required forthwith to prepare a new district planning scheme for the whole of the district.

ACCOUNTS

21. For accounting and other financial purposes the union shall be deemed to have taken place on the 1st day of April 1978.

P. G. MILLEN, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Union of Southland County and Wyndham Town District

KEITH HOLYOAKE, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington this 28th day of November 1977

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Local Government Act 1974, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order:

ORDER

COMMENCEMENT

1. This order shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1978.

CONSTITUTION

2. The district of the Wyndam Town District (herein referred to as “the town district”) shall be united with, and form part of, Southland County (herein referred to as “the county”); and the Wyndham Town Council shall be dissolved.

3. The area of the former town district shall be a community, under the name of the “Wyndham Community”, and shall be within the jurisdiction of a community council to be known as the “Wyndham Community Council”.

4. The Wyndham Community shall form part of the Toetoes Riding of the county.

REPRESENTATION

5. The Wyndham Community Council shall comprise seven members, and, until the next triennial general election of councillors, the Wyndham Community Council shall comprise the persons holding office as councillors of the Wyndham Town Council on the day immediately preceding union; and the chairman of the Wyndham Community Council shall be the person who on that day was the chairman of the Wyndham Town Council.

RATING

6. The Wyndham Community shall be a differential rating area of the Toetoes Riding as if it had been so established pursuant to section 155 of the Local Government Act 1974.

FINANCE

7. Notwithstanding anything in this Order,

(a) The closing balances of the accounts of the former Wyndham Town Council shall be the opening balances of the accounts of the Wyndham Community Council; and

(b) The Special Funds of the former town district shall be retained and used, in the area of the Wyndham Community, for the purposes for which they were raised.

PETROLEUM TAX

8. For the purposes of the Local Authorities (Petroleum Tax) Act 1970, the county shall be the successor of the town district.

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING

9. The Southland County Council shall not be required forthwith to prepare a new district scheme for the whole of its district as provided by section 28B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1953, but it shall instead complete the draft town district planning scheme for the Wyndham Community, which district scheme shall be part of the Southland County District Scheme and shall be reviewed with that scheme.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

10. The provisions of subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g), of section 10, of the Counties Act 1956, shall apply as if the union were a union of two counties.

11. The valuation rolls, electors’ lists, electors’ rolls, and rate records in force in the county and the town district, shall continue in force for the respective areas until new valuation rolls, electors’ lists, electors’ rolls, and rate records are made for the county.

P. G. MILLEN, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending the Time Within Which the Royal Commission on Nuclear Power Generation May Report

ELIZABETH the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith:

To Our Trusty and Well-beloved the Right Honourable Sir THADDEUS PEARCEY McCARTHY, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, of Wellington, Doctor IAN DOUGLAS BLAIR, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, of Christchurch, VIVIENNE MYRA BOYD, of Lower Hutt, Professor BRUCE SWEEN LILEY, of Hamilton, and LINDSAY AITKEN RANDERSON, of Wellington:

GREETING:

WHEREAS by Our Warrant dated the 13th day of September 1976* We nominated, constituted, and appointed you, the said the Right Honourable Sir THADDEUS PEARCEY McCARTHY, IAN DOUGLAS BLAIR, VIVIENNE MYRA BOYD, BRUCE SWEEN LILEY, and LINDSAY AITKEN RANDERSON to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the likely consequences of a nuclear power programme:

And whereas by Our said Warrant you were required to report to His Excellency the Governor-General, not later than the 31st day of December 1977, your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid:

And whereas it is expedient that the time for so reporting should be extended as hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, We do hereby extend until the 30th day of April 1978, the time within which you are so required to report, without prejudice to the liberty conferred on you by Our said Warrant to report your proceedings and findings from time to time if you should judge it expedient so to do:

And we do hereby confirm Our said Warrant and the Commission thereby constituted save as modified by these presents:

And, lastly, it is hereby declared that these presents are issued under the authority of the Letters Patent of His Late Majesty King George the Fifth, dated the 11th day of May 1917, and under the authority of and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand.

In witness whereof We have caused these presents to be issued and the Seal of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed at Wellington this 28th day of November 1977.