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community boards for those communities constituted by this clause shall be the Returning Officer for the former Tasman District.

(4) The first election of the community boards for those communities constituted by this clause shall be conducted by postal vote.

64 RATING

(1) The system of rating in the Tasman District shall be the land value system.

(2) Until the Valuer-General is able to produce a valuation roll for the Tasman District, Part XIV of the Rating Powers Act 1988 shall apply as if the Tasman District was the district of a special purpose authority and the areas from which it was formed were constituent districts.

(3) Notwithstanding subclause (1) of this clause, the provisions of clause 10 of the Union of Motueka Borough, Richmond Borough, and Waimea County Order 1988 (which relates to rating and financial divisions) shall continue to apply within the appropriate part of the Tasman District.

65 TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING

(1) The Tasman District Council shall not be required to prepare a new district scheme, immediately, for the Tasman District.

(2) The operative district schemes and the proposed district schemes under the Town and Country Planning Act 1977 of the former authorities shall be deemed to be the operative district scheme or, as the case may be, the proposed district scheme of the Tasman District.

(3) Where any former authority had, prior to its dissolution, begun the preparation of any review of its district scheme or of any change or variation thereto, then, subject to any resolution of the Tasman District Council to the contrary, all such preparation shall be deemed to have been done by, or on behalf of, the Tasman District Council and may be adopted and acted upon by it.

(4) Where before the coming into force of this clause any application had been made to any former authority by any person pursuant to any provision of the Town and Country Planning Act 1977, and:

(a) No hearing by that former authority or any committee thereof had begun of such application or any objection thereto, the application shall be deemed to have been made to the Tasman District Council and shall be dealt with by it accordingly; or

(b) Such application had been heard or otherwise disposed of by that former authority and either the time for any appeal against such decision had not expired or notice of appeal had been given, any such appeal shall be deemed to be against the Tasman District Council; or

(c) Such application had been either partly or fully heard or considered by that former authority but no decision thereon had been given, the application shall be heard or considered again by the Tasman District Council or, as the case may require, a committee or delegate thereof.

66 CIVIL DEFENCE

The operative local civil defence plans for the districts of the former authorities shall continue in force in the respective parts of the Tasman District until a new plan is approved for the Tasman District, in accordance with the Civil Defence Act 1983.

67 VESTING OF PROPERTY

All property, real and personal, vested in the corporation of any former authority is hereby vested in the corporation of the Tasman District Council, subject to all existing encumbrances.

68 TITLE TO PROPERTY

Any reference, express or implied, to any former authority in any instrument or other document, or in any entry or record made in any register in relation to any property vested in the Tasman District Council by clause 67 of this order shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to "The Tasman District Council".

69 TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

(1) The local authorities named in subclause (2) of this clause shall unite in appointing a transitional committee for the Tasman District.

(2) The local authorities to which this clause applies shall be:

(a) The former Tasman District Council; and

(b) The Golden Bay County Council.

70 MEMBERSHIP OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

(1) The transitional committee for the Tasman District shall consist of:

(a) The members of the former Tasman District Council;

and

(b) Two members appointed by the Golden Bay County Council.

71 CASTING VOTE

The Chairperson of the transitional committee for the Tasman District or other person presiding at any meeting of the committee shall have a casting vote in the case of equality of votes.

72 PRINCIPAL LOCAL AUTHORITY

The principal local authority for the transitional committee for the Tasman District shall be the former Tasman District Council.

73 COSTS OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

The costs of the transitional committee for the Tasman District (including the costs of providing administrative services to it) shall be borne and paid by the local authorities named in clause 69 (2) of this order either:

(a) In accordance with a formula agreed to by that committee; or

(b) If there is no such agreement, in accordance with the following formula—

The proportion of those costs to be borne and paid by each local authority shall equal the proportion that the population (as at the time of the Census of Population and Dwellings held on the 4th day of March 1986) of:

(i) The district of that local authority; or

(ii) Those parts of the district of that local authority to be included in the Tasman District,

as the case may be, bears to the total of the populations (as at the time of that census) of all of the districts of the local authorities or parts of the districts of the local authorities to be included in the Tasman District.

74 CONSULTATION WITH ADMINISTERING AUTHORITIES OF RESERVES

(1) The transitional committee for the Tasman District shall consult with each administering body under the Reserves Act 1977 for each reserve whose functions, duties, and powers are, by this order, allocated to the Tasman District Council.

(2) The consultation shall be for the purpose of discussing the possible establishment of a committee of management for each reserve being administered by those administering authorities.

(3) Where, following that consultation, the transitional committee for the Tasman District considers it desirable that any committee or committees of management be established, the transitional committee