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Council or any of the former authorities and not expressly referred to in this clause; and

(iv) Any local Act relating to the Southland Regional Council or any of the former authorities; and

(b) The functions, duties, and powers in relation to regional planning of a regional council under the Town and Country Planning Act 1977 or any other Act; and

(c) The functions, duties, and powers in relation to maritime planning of a maritime planning authority under the Town and Country Planning Act 1977 or any other Act; and

(d) The functions, duties, and powers of a catchment board and a regional water board under the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941 and the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967 or any other Act; and

(e) The functions, duties, and powers in relation to civil defence of a regional council under the Civil Defence Act 1983 or any other Act; and

(f) Except as otherwise provided in this order, the functions, duties, and powers of a harbour board under the Harbours Act 1950 and the Marine Pollution Act 1974 or any other Act; and

(g) The functions, duties, and powers of a pest destruction board under the Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967 or any other Act, and

(h) The functions, duties, and powers of a district noxious plants authority under the Noxious Plants Act 1978 or any other Act; and

(i) In respect of the areas of the Otautau River Board and the Waimatuku River Board, the functions, duties, and powers of a river board under the River Boards Act 1908.

17 RURAL SERVICES COMMITTEE

(1) The Southland Regional Council shall, at least until the 1st day of November 1995, establish and maintain a Rural Services Committee.

(2) The Rural Services Committee shall be responsible for:

(a) Agricultural pests destruction; and

(b) Noxious plants control; and

(c) Any other functions considered by the Southland Regional Council to be of particular concern to the rural community.

(3) The persons appointed by the Southland Regional Council to 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.

18 REGIONAL LAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

(1) The Southland Regional Council shall 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 Southland Regional Council considers appropriate.

19 HARBOUR COMMITTEE

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

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

(a) Navigation and safety within those areas within harbour limits for which the Southland 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 Southland Regional Council to the Southland 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 the Committee.

20 ADMINISTRATION HEADQUARTERS

The administration headquarters of the Southland Regional Council shall be located in Invercargill.

21 RATING

(1) Without limiting the powers of the Southland 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 Southland Region shall be the land value system.

(2) The Southland Regional Council shall exercise within the Southland 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.

22 REGIONAL PLANNING

(1) The Southland 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 Southland 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 Southland Regional Council to the contrary, all such preparation shall be deemed to have been done by, or on behalf of, the Southland Regional Council, and may be adopted and acted upon by it.

23 CIVIL DEFENCE

The operative regional civil defence plans of the former authorities shall continue in force in those areas included in the Southland Region until a new plan is approved for the whole region in accordance with the Civil Defence Act 1983.

24 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 Southland Region is hereby vested in the corporation of the Southland Regional Council, subject to all existing encumbrances.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in this order, all property, real and personal, vested in the corporation of any former authority, other than those former authorities named in paragraphs (i) to (q) of clause 10 of this order, and situated in a region in which that former authority is not also a former authority is hereby vested in the corporation of the Southland Regional Council, subject to all existing encumbrances.

25 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 Southland Regional Council by clause 24 of this order shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Southland Regional Council.