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thereto, the application shall be deemed to have been made to the Gore 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 Gore 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 Gore District Council or, as the case may require, a committee or delegate thereof.

71 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 Gore District until a new plan is approved for the Gore District, in accordance with the Civil Defence Act 1983.

72 VESTING OF PROPERTY

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

(2) All property, real and personal, vested in the corporation of any former authority, other than the Southland County Council and the Clutha County Council, and situated in a district in which that former authority is not also a former authority, is hereby vested in the corporation of the Gore District Council, subject to all existing encumbrances.

73 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 Gore District Council by clause 72 of this order shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to “The Gore District Council”.

74 TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

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

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

(a) The Gore Borough Council; and

(b) The Mataura Borough Council; and

(c) The Southland County Council.

75 MEMBERSHIP OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

The transitional committee for the Gore District shall consist of:

(a) Three members appointed by the Gore Borough Council;

(b) Two members appointed by the Mataura Borough Council; and

(c) One member appointed by the Southland County Council; and

(d) One officer appointed by each local authority named in clause 74(2) of this order, who shall be non-voting members of the transitional committee; and

(e) The Chief Executive designate, when appointed in accordance with clause 78 of this order, who shall be a non-voting member of the transitional committee; and

(f) One member appointed by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, being an employee of a local authority named in clause 74(2) of this order, who shall be a non-voting member of the transitional committee.

76 NO CASTING VOTE

The Chairperson of the transitional committee for the Gore District or other person presiding at any meeting of the committee shall not have a casting vote in the case of equality of votes.

77 EXCLUSION OF NON-VOTING MEMBERS

The transitional committee for the Gore District may resolve to exclude any non-voting member of that committee from any meeting or part of a meeting where it proposes to consider any matter that affects that member personally.

78 OBLIGATION OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE TO APPOINT CHIEF EXECUTIVE

The transitional committee for the Gore District shall appoint a person to be the Chief Executive of the Gore District Council.

79 PRINCIPAL LOCAL AUTHORITY

The principal local authority for the transitional committee for the Gore District shall be the Gore Borough Council.

80 COSTS OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

The costs of the transitional committee for the Gore District (including the costs of providing administrative services to it) shall be borne and paid by the local authorities named in clause 74(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 Gore 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 Gore District.

PART V

Southland District

81 CONSTITUTION OF SOUTHLAND DISTRICT

There is hereby constituted a district, to be known as “The Southland District”, which shall comprise the area delineated on S.O. Plan No. 11489 deposited with the Chief Surveyor of the Southland Land District.

82 SOUTHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL

A territorial authority, to be known as “The Southland District Council”, is hereby constituted for the Southland District.

83 INTERPRETATION

In this Part of this order, “the former authorities” means:

(a) The Southland County Council; and

(b) The Wallace County Council; and

(c) The Winton Borough Council; and

(d) The Stewart Island County Council; and

(e) The Westland County Council; and

(f) The Queenstown-Lakes District Council; and

(g) The Vincent County Council; and

(h) The Clutha County Council; and

(i) The Ohai Railway Board; and

(j) The Hirstfield Recreation Reserve Board;