Notice Type
Departmental
The Invercargill City Council Review of Membership and Basis of Election (Public Notice Validation) Order 1994 CATHERINE A. TIZARD, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL At Wellington this 5th day of December 1994 Present: The Hon. Doug Kidd Presiding in Council Whereas (a) Section 101h (1) of the Local Government Act 1974 (as substituted by section 6 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1991) requires every territorial authority to determine by resolution, in the year immediately preceding any year in which a triennial general election is to be held, but not later than the 31st day of August in the year immediately preceding the year in which the triennial election is to be held, the membership and the basis of election of the council; and (b) Section 101j (1) of the Local Government Act 1974 (as substituted by section 7 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1991) provides that a council shall, within 14 days after making a resolution under section 101h of that Act, but not in any case later than the 8th day of September in the year immediately preceding the year of the triennial general election, give public notice of the proposals contained in the resolution; and (c) The public notice given by the Invercargill City Council under section 101j of the Local Government Act 1974 in the year 1994 (i) Was given on the 14th day of September 1994 (which was after the time prescribed by section 101j (1) of the Local Government Act 1974); and (ii) Specified, as the closing date for the lodging of written objections to the proposals contained in the resolution, the 9th day of October 1994 (a date which, contrary to section 101j (2) (a) of the Local Government Act 1974, was earlier than one month after the date of the publication of the public notice); and (d) It is desirable to validate the giving of that public notice: Now therefore, pursuant to section 719 of the Local Government Act 1974, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order. O r d e r 1. Title and commencement (1) This order may be cited as the Invercargill City Council Review of Membership and Basis of Election (Public Notice Validation) Order 1994. (2) This order shall come into force on the day after the date of its publication in the Gazette. 2. Validation of public notice The giving of the public notice referred to in the preamble to this Order is hereby validated, notwithstanding that that public notice was given both (a) After the time prescribed by section 101j (1) of the Local Government Act 1974; and (b) In a form that was contrary to section 101j (2) (a) of the Local Government Act 1974. MARIE SHROFF, Clerk of the Executive Council.
Publication Date
8 Dec 1994

Notice Number

1994-go8852

Page Number

4344