NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

13 JUNE

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74 VESTING OF PROPERTY

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

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

75 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 Grey District Council by clause 74 of this order shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to “The Grey District Council”.

76 TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

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

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

(a) The Grey County Council; and

(b) The Greymouth Borough Council; and

(c) The Runanga Borough Council; and

(d) The Greymouth Harbour Board.

77 MEMBERSHIP OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

The transitional committee for the Grey District shall consist of:

(a) Three members appointed by the Grey County Council; and

(b) Three members appointed by the Greymouth Borough Council; and

(c) One member appointed by the Runanga Borough Council; and

(d) One member appointed by the Greymouth Harbour Board; and

(e) One officer appointed by each local authority, named in clause 76(2) of this order, who shall be non-voting members of the committee; and

(f) The Chief Executive designate, when appointed in accordance with clause 80 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 76(2) who shall be a non-voting member of the transitional committee.

78 NO CASTING VOTE

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

79 EXCLUSION OF NON-VOTING MEMBERS

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

80 OBLIGATION OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE TO APPOINT CHIEF EXECUTIVE

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

81 PRINCIPAL LOCAL AUTHORITY

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

82 COSTS OF TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE

(1) The costs of the transitional committee for the Grey District (including the costs of providing administrative services to it) shall be borne and paid by the local authorities named in clause 76(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 gross revenue of the local authority for the year ended on the 31st day of March 1988 bears to the gross revenue of all the local authorities to which this clause applies for that year.

(2) For the purpose of this clause the gross revenue of a local authority shall be the gross revenue reasonably related to the area of a local authority which is to be included in the Grey District or any function of a local authority which is to be transferred to the Grey District Council, whichever is applicable.

83 CONSULTATION WITH ADMINISTERING AUTHORITIES OF RESERVES

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

PART V

Westland District

84 CONSTITUTION OF WESTLAND DISTRICT

There is hereby constituted a district, to be known as “The Westland District”, which shall comprise the area delineated on S.O. Plan No. 11463 deposited with the Chief Surveyor of the Westland Land District.

85 WESTLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL

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

86 INTERPRETATION

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

(a) The Hokitika Borough Council; and

(b) The Westland County Council; and

(c) The Queenstown-Lakes District Council; and

(d) The Hari Hari Reserve Board; and

(e) The Kokatahi Reserve Board; and

(f) The Kowhitirangi Reserve Board; and

(g) The Woodstock Reserve Board; and

(h) The Whataroa Reserve Board; and

(i) The Three Mile Reserve Board,

and any reference to “former authority” shall be read as a reference to any of the former authorities named in this clause.

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