NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 99

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

21 HARBOUR COMMITTEE

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

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

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

22 ADMINISTRATION HEADQUARTERS

Until the Wellington Regional Council otherwise resolves, the administration headquarters of the Wellington Regional Council shall be located in Wellington City.

23 REGIONAL SERVICE DELIVERY CENTRE

The Wellington Regional Council shall establish and maintain a regional service delivery centre in Masterton.

24 RATING

(1) Without limiting the powers of the Wellington 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 Wellington Region shall be the capital value system.

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

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

(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 Wellington Regional Council shall be levied and collected by the constituent authorities of the Wellington 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 system of rating 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 which the rate was made by the Wellington Regional Council.

(5) Where any rate to which subclause (3) of this clause applies is made by the Wellington 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 Wellington 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 the rates, including goods and services tax, collected by that constituent authority on behalf of that Council.

(7) The Wellington 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.

25 REGIONAL PLANNING

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

26 CIVIL DEFENCE

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

27 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 Wellington Region is hereby vested in the corporation of the Wellington 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 the former authorities named in paragraphs (b), (e), (i), (l) and (o) 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 Wellington Regional Council, subject to all existing encumbrances.

28 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 Wellington Regional Council by clause 27 of this order shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to “The Wellington Regional Council”.

29 TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

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

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