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again by the Hauraki District Council or, as the case may require, a committee or delegate thereto.

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

168 VESTING OF PROPERTY

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

(2) All property, real and personal, vested in the corporation of any former authority, other than the Tauranga 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 Hauraki District Council, subject to all existing encumbrances.

169 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 by clause 168 of this order shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to “The Hauraki District Council”.

170 TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

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

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

(a) The Hauraki Plains County Council; and

(b) The Ohinemuri County Council; and

(c) The Paeroa Borough Council; and

(d) The Waihi Borough Council.

171 MEMBERSHIP OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

The transitional committee for the Hauraki District shall consist of:

(a) Two members appointed by the Hauraki Plains County Council; and

(b) Two members appointed by the Ohinemuri County Council; and

(c) Two members appointed by the Paeroa Borough Council; and

(d) Two members appointed by the Waihi Borough Council; and

(e) One officer appointed by each local authority named in clause 170(2) of this order, who shall be non-voting members of the transitional committee; and

(f) The Chief Executive designate, when appointed in accordance clause 174 of this order, who shall be a non-voting member of the transitional committee; and

(g) One member appointed by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, being an employee of a local authority named in clause 170(2) of this order, who shall be a non-voting member of the transitional committee.

172 NO CASTING VOTE

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

173 EXCLUSION OF NON-VOTING MEMBERS

The transitional committee for the Hauraki 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.

174 OBLIGATION OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE TO APPOINT CHIEF EXECUTIVE

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

175 PRINCIPAL LOCAL AUTHORITY

The principal local authority for the transitional committee for the Hauraki District shall be the Ohinemuri County Council.

176 COSTS OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

The costs of the transitional committee for the Hauraki District (including the costs of providing administrative services to it) shall be borne and paid by the local authorities named in clause 170(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 Hauraki 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 Hauraki District.

177 CONSULTATION WITH ADMINISTERING AUTHORITIES OF RESERVES

(1) The transitional committee for the Hauraki 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 Hauraki 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 Hauraki District considers it desirable that any committee or committees of management be established, the transitional committee shall recommend to the Hauraki District Council that it establish such a committee or committees of management.

PART X

Matamata-Piako District

178 CONSTITUTION OF MATAMATA-PIAKO DISTRICT

There is hereby constituted a district, to be known as “The Matamata-Piako District”, which shall comprise the area delineated on S.O. Plan No. 58040 deposited with the Chief Surveyor of the South Auckland Land District.

179 MATAMATA-PIAKO DISTRICT COUNCIL

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

180 INTERPRETATION

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