WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1988
PROVISION FOR DUAL MEMBERSHIP OF URBCO, DB
ENABLE COUNCIL AND
THE ELECTORAL PROVISIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988 SEEKS TO A PERSON TO SERVE BOTH AS AN ELECTED MEMBER OF THE URBAN AS AN ELECTED MEMBER OF A DISTRICT BOARD IN THE URBAN COUNCIL AREA
THE IN CONTAINED REMOVING A RESTRICTION
SECRETARY, (WEDNESDAY).
SIR
DAVID FORD,
TOLD
EXISTING THE LEGISLATIVE
THE LAW,
COUNCIL
BY
CHIEF TODAY
DAVID SAID
THE
THAT THERE THE URBAN COUNCIL
THE
SIR BILL. MOVING THE SECOND READING OF
IMPORTANCE OF ENSURING GOVERNMENT FULLY UNDERSTOOD THE WOULD CONTINUE TO BE STRONG WORKING LINKS BETWEEN AND THE URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS.
"THE
RESTRICTION
OF DUAL
MEMBERSHIP
TO
EXTENSION COUNCIL AREA REFLECTS, AND IS A LOGICAL ARRANGEMENTS PERMITTING DUAL MEMBERSHIP BETWEEN THE AND DISTRICT BOARDS IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA,
WITHIN THE URBAN OF, THE EXISTING REGIONAL COUNCIL
** HE SAID.
AMENDMENTS TO
WHO COUNCILLOR
WAS
SIR DAVID SAID THE BILL ALSO MADE CONSEQUENTIAL
URBAN THE THE LAW TO CLARIFY
POSITION OF AN ELECTED AS A MEMBER OF AN URBAN DISTRICT BOARD.
DISTRICT ANOTHER
ELECTED MEMBER, BUT BOARD WILL BE
"HE WILL SIT ON THE DISTRICT BOARD AS AN HIS EX-OFFICIO SEAT ON THE SAME OR
**
LEFT VACANT, HE SAID,
SIR DAVID
GOVERNMENT'S
PROPOSAL
EXPLAINED THAT
THE THAT THE EXISTING
THE OF COUNCILLORS WERE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
WHEN THE TENURE OF THE SHOULD CEASE IN MARCH 1989 COUNCIL WOULD EXPIRE.
BILL
STEMMED
WHEREBY PRACTICE,
URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS, URBAN PRESENT
FROM THE URBAN
THE PROPOSAL
WAS ANNOUNCED
AGO,
ΤΟ
PUBLICLY ABOUT SIX WEEKS BEFORE THE OPENING OF NOMINATIONS FOR THE DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS BE HELD IN MARCH THIS YEAR.
CONSIDER PLAN THEIR
90 THAT POTENTIAL IT WAS NECESSARY TO MAKE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT
BE CANDIDATES WHO MIGHT
BY THE PROPOSAL 'COULD AFFECTED WHETHER TO STAND FOR ELECTION TO A DISTRICT BOARD, AND TO ELECTIONEERING ACTIVITIES IF THEY DID SO, SIR DAVID SAID.
A CANDIDATE WILL BE
OF A DISTRICT
ABLE,
BOARD,
IF WHILE
"IF THE BILL 18 PASSED, SUCH ELECTED, TO SERVE AS AN ELECTED MEMBER RETAINING HIS MEMBERSHIP OF THE URBAN COUNCIL.
NOTING THAT THE
PROPOSAL
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERSHIP OF THE QUESTION OF WHAT ALTERNATIVE
**
ΤΟ DISCONTINUE URBAN COUNCILLORS' BOARDS RAISED THE URBAN DISTRICT
BE PROVIDED BETWEEN THE SAID THE WORKING
LINKS WOULD
URBAN COUNCIL AND URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS, SIR DAVID LINKS BETWEEN THE TWO BODIES WOULD BE DEALT WITH IN A WHITE PAPER.
WHICH DID
HE ADDED THAT THE BILL WAS A SELF-CONTAINED MEASURE NOT PREJUDGE THE CONTENTS OF THE WHITE PAPER IN ANY MATERIAL WAY,
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
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