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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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