NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 99

the Rural Services Committee established under this clause shall include not less than 2 persons:

(a) Who are not members of that Council; but

(b) Who, in the opinion of the Council, have knowledge that will assist the work of the committee.

19 JOINT COMMITTEE

(1) The Otago Regional Council shall, at least until the 1st day of November 1995, unite with the Canterbury Regional Council, in appointing a joint committee.

(2) The joint committee shall comprise an equal number of representatives appointed by those Councils.

(3) The functions of the joint committee shall be:

(a) Co-ordinating planning for the control of those agricultural pests and noxious plants of particular concern, in relation to their regions; and

(b) Co-ordinating action on such other matters as those councils are jointly interested in.

20 REGIONAL LAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

(1) The Otago Regional Council shall, at least until the 1st day of November 1995, establish and maintain a Regional Land Transport Committee.

(2) The Regional Land Transport Committee shall be responsible for:

(a) Regional roading under Part XXII of the Local Government Act 1974; and

(b) Such transport or other roading responsibilities as may from time to time, pursuant to any Act, become a function of a regional council; and

(c) Such other functions as the Otago Regional Council considers appropriate.

21 HARBOUR COMMITTEE

(1) The Otago Regional Council shall, at least until the 1st day of November 1995, establish and maintain an Otago Harbour Committee.

(2) The Otago Harbour Committee shall be responsible for:

(a) Navigation and safety within those areas within harbour limits for which the Otago Regional Council is from time to time responsible; and

(b) Any other matter associated with the regulation of those areas, other than maritime planning; and

(c) Such other functions as that Council considers appropriate.

(3) The persons appointed by the Otago Regional Council to the Otago Harbour Committee established under this clause shall include not less than two persons:

(a) Who are not members of that Council; but

(b) Who, in the opinion of the Council, have knowledge that will assist the work of that Committee.

22 ADMINISTRATION HEADQUARTERS

The administration headquarters of the Otago Regional Council shall be located in Dunedin.

23 RATING

(1) Without limiting the powers of the Otago Regional Council under the Rating Powers Act 1988 to make and levy any rate under a different system of rating, the system of rating in the Otago Region shall be the capital value system.

(2) The Otago Regional Council shall exercise within the Otago Region or any part thereof:

(a) Any rating powers possessed by any former authority; and

(b) Any powers to make and levy assessments relating to the functions and powers possessed by any former authority.

(3) Subject to subclause (7) of this clause, and until at least the 30th day of June 1992, all rates made by the Otago Regional Council shall be levied and collected by the constituent authorities of the Otago Region as if an agreement had been made under section 127(1) of the Rating Powers Act 1988.

(4) Where a rate to which subclause (3) of this clause applies has been made on a different rating system to that which applies in the district of the constituent authority by which the rate is to be collected, that rate shall be levied and collected by the constituent authority:

(a) On the system of rating in force in the district of the constituent authority; or

(b) On the system of rating upon which the rate was made by the Otago Regional Council.

(5) Where any rate to which subclause (3) of this clause applies is made by the Otago Regional Council in respect of an area of benefit, it shall be levied and collected by the constituent authority or authorities within which that area of benefit is located and, where appropriate, according to any graduated scale applying to that rate.

(6) Subject to subclause (7) of this clause, the Otago Regional Council shall, for the purpose of:

(a) Reimbursing each constituent authority for costs incurred in the levying and collecting of rates (including goods and services tax); and

(b) Paying reasonable remuneration for clerical and other work,

pay to each constituent authority an amount equal to 2 percent of the total amount of rates, including goods and services tax, collected by that constituent authority on behalf of that Council.

(7) The Otago Regional Council and the constituent authorities may, by unanimous agreement, resolve:

(a) That, at any time after the 1st day of July 1990, that Council shall levy and collect all or any rates directly; or

(b) That, at any time after the 1st day of July 1990, the amount payable by that Council to each constituent authority, pursuant to subclause (6) of this clause, may be increased or decreased or calculated in accordance with a formula not based upon a percentage.

24 REGIONAL PLANNING

(1) The Otago Regional Council shall not be required to prepare a new regional planning scheme immediately.

(2) The approved regional planning schemes and the proposed regional planning schemes under the Town and Country Planning Act 1977 of the former authorities shall be deemed to be the approved, or as the case may be, the proposed regional planning scheme of the Otago Region.

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

25 CIVIL DEFENCE

The operative regional civil defence plans of the former Clutha-Central Otago United Council, the former Coastal-North Otago United Council, and the former Southland United Council shall continue in force in those areas included in the Otago Region until a new plan is approved for that region, in accordance with the Civil Defence Act 1983.

26 VESTING OF PROPERTY

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this order, all property, real and personal, vested in the corporation of any former authority and situated in the Otago Region is hereby vested in