New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 213

213 Facilitating provisions of proclamations

(1) A proclamation of the Governor for the purposes of this Division may include such provisions as are necessary or convenient for giving effect to the proclamation, including provisions for or with respect to--

• the transfer or apportionment of assets, rights and liabilities

• the transfer of staff

• the application of regulations

• the alteration of ward boundaries

• the holding of elections

• the delivery or retention of records

• the termination, cessation, dissolution or abolition of anything existing before the proclamation takes effect

• the preservation or continuance of anything existing before the proclamation takes effect

• the making of appointments

• the inclusion or exclusion, as a constituent council of any related county council or related joint organisation, of the council of any area constituted or dissolved by the proclamation.

Note : If a proclamation for the purposes of this Division transfers staff members (other than senior staff) from the employment of one council to another council, the provisions of Part 6 of Chapter 11 apply in relation to the transferred staff members.

(2) Such a proclamation may--

(a) apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to specified exceptions or factors, or

(b) apply differently according to different factors of a specified kind, or

(c) authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by any specified person or body,

or may do any combination of those things.

(3) In this section--

"related county council" , in relation to an area constituted or dissolved by a proclamation of the Governor, means a county council that has an area of operations that includes the whole or part of the area so constituted or dissolved.

"related joint organisation" , in relation to an area constituted or dissolved by a proclamation of the Governor, means a joint organisation for a joint organisation area that includes the whole or part of the area so constituted or dissolved.