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The Bill will also make the Regional Council the
Authority, in place of the Director of Regional Services, for
a wide range of powers and functions under the Ordinance and
its subsidiary legislation including the provision of services,
the management of facilities, the issuance of licences, etc.
As the Council will in future perform its functions through
the Regional Services Department which will be its executive arm,
significant changes in the existing day-to-day working arrangements
will not be necessary.
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5.
The Bill provides the necessary transitional
arrangements to allow officers of the Regional Services
Department to continue to perform their present functions until
30 April 1986 by which date the Regional Council will be able to
fully assume its responsibility for them. The Bill will also provide that
certain contracts made under the present Ordinance and entered into
before 1 April 1986 by the Director of Regional Services on behalf
of the Government shall, if they are still in force on that date,
be deemed to have been entered into on behalf of the Regional
Council.
6.
When I moved the Second Reading of the Urban
Council (Amendment) Bill, I explained to Members the
necessity to redefine the jurisdictional areas of the two
Councils.
Similar amendments to this Crdinance have also been
found necessary.
It is therefore proposed that the jurisdictions
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