NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 99

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65 First meeting
66 Chief executive
67 Functions, duties, and powers
68 Administration headquarters
69 Rating
70 Town and country planning
71 Civil defence
72 Vesting of property
73 Title to property

PART V

South Taranaki District

74 Constitution of South Taranaki District
75 South Taranaki District Council
76 Interpretation
77 Wards
78 Membership
79 First election
80 First meeting
81 Chief executive
82 Functions, duties, and powers
83 Eltham Drainage Area
84 Eltham Drainage Committee
85 Administration headquarters
86 Service delivery centres
87 Communities
88 Rating
89 Town and country planning
90 Civil defence
91 Vesting of property

PART VI

92 Title to property
93 Transitional committee
94 Membership of transitional committee
95 No casting vote
96 Exclusion of non-voting members
97 Obligation of transitional committee to appoint chief executive
98 Principal local authority
99 Costs of transitional committee

Taranaki Harbours Board

100 Vesting of property
101 Title to property
102 Westgate Transport Port Taranaki Limited
103 Liabilities in respect of port related commercial undertakings
104 Residual assets and liabilities

PART VII

General

105 Transfer of responsibilities
106 Creditors
107 Local authorities petroleum tax
108 Special funds
109 Loans
110 Assets and liabilities
111 Loan liabilities
112 Residual authorities
113 Conduct of affairs

Schedules

Order

1 TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT

(1) This order may be cited as the Local Government (Taranaki Region) Reorganisation Order 1989.

(2) Subject to subclause (3) of this clause, this order shall come into force on the 1st day of November 1989.

(3) Those provisions of this order necessary:

(a) To provide for the first election of the members of the local authorities, and the members of the community boards for the communities, constituted by this order; and

(b) For the purposes of clauses 27 to 34, 52 to 59, 93 to 99 and 110 of this order; and

(c) For the appointment of the principal administrative officers of those local authorities constituted by this order,

shall come into force on the making of this order.

2 ELECTIONS

Subject to clause 64 of this order, the first elections of the local authorities, and the community boards for the communities, constituted by this order shall be held on the 14th day of October 1989.

3 COMMUNITIES

Each community constituted by this order shall come into existence on the day after the date on which the Returning Officer declares the result of the first election of members of the community board for that community, provided that no such community shall come into existence prior to the 1st day of November 1989.

PART I

Taranaki Region

4 TARANAKI REGION

There is hereby constituted a region, to be known as “The Taranaki Region”, which shall comprise the area delineated on S.O. Plan No. 13043 deposited with the Chief Surveyor of the Taranaki Land District.

5 CONSTITUENT AUTHORITIES

The constituent authorities of the Taranaki Region shall comprise the territorial authorities constituted by Parts III to V of this order.

6 DISSOLUTION OF EXISTING LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND ABOLITION OF EXISTING DISTRICTS

(1) Every local authority named in Part I or Part II of the First Schedule to this order is hereby dissolved.

(2) Every district named in Part I of the First Schedule to this order is hereby abolished.

7 REFERENCES TO FORMER AUTHORITY

(1) Every reference in this order to a former authority shall, where part only of the district of a former authority has been included within the district of a local authority, or any function of a former authority has been allocated to a local authority, be read as a reference to the former authority only in relation to that part or, as the case may be, that function.

(2) Any reference in Part VII of this order to “the former authorities” or “former authority” shall be a reference to any former authorities defined in Parts II to V of this order.