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South Australia
Environment Protection (Board of Authority) Amendment
Bill 2008
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Environment Protection Act 1993.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Environment Protection
Act 1993
4 Amendment of section
3—Interpretation
5 Amendment of section 14—Powers of
Authority
6 Substitution of section 14A
14A Chief
Executive
7 Amendment of section 14B—Board of
Authority
8 Amendment of section 16—Proceedings of Board
9 Amendment of section 19—Round-table conference
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Environment Protection (Board of Authority)
Amendment Act 2008.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Environment Protection
Act 1993
4—Amendment of
section 3—Interpretation
Section 3(1), definition of Chief Executive—delete the
definition and substitute:
Chief Executive of the Authority means a person who is, for
the time being, taken to be the Chief Executive of the Authority in accordance
with section 14A;
5—Amendment of
section 14—Powers of Authority
Section 14(b)—delete paragraph (b) and substitute:
(b) with the approval of a Minister administering an administrative unit,
make use of the services of the administrative unit's employees and of its
facilities; and
Section 14A—delete the section and substitute:
14A—Chief Executive
(1) If—
(a) in accordance with section 14(b), the Authority makes use of the
services of an administrative unit's employees and of its facilities;
and
(b) the Minister administering that administrative unit approves the
application of this section to the position of chief executive of that
administrative unit,
the person for the time being holding or acting in the position of chief
executive of that administrative unit will be taken to be the Chief Executive of
the Authority for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Chief Executive is, subject to the control and direction of the
Board, responsible for giving effect to the policies and decisions of the
Board.
7—Amendment of
section 14B—Board of Authority
(1) Section 14B(2)—after "members" insert:
appointed by the Governor
(2) Section 14B(3)—delete "and the remaining members of the Board
will be appointed by the Governor"
(3) Section 14B—after subsection (3) insert:
(3a) 1 of the appointed members of the Board will be appointed by the
Governor to be the presiding member of the Board.
(3b) 1 of the appointed members of the Board may be appointed by the
Governor to be the deputy presiding member of the Board.
(4) Section 14B(8)—delete "in the place of the member of whom he or
she has been appointed deputy during any absence of that member" and
substitute:
as a member of the Board during any period of absence of the
member
8—Amendment of
section 16—Proceedings of Board
(1) Section 16(2)—delete subsections (2) and (2a) and
substitute:
(2) The presiding member will preside at each meeting of the Board at
which he or she is present.
(2a) If the presiding member is absent from a meeting of the
Board—
(a) if a member appointed as deputy presiding member is present—that
member will preside; or
(b) in any other case—an appointed member of the Board chosen by the
members present at the meeting will preside.
(2) Section 16(6)—after "Each" insert:
appointed
(3) Section 16—after subsection (6) insert:
(6a) The Chief Executive of the Authority is not entitled to vote at a
meeting of the Board.
9—Amendment of
section 19—Round-table conference
Section 19(5)—delete subsection (5)