South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts8—The Development Policy Advisory Committee
(1) The Development
Policy Advisory Committee (the "Advisory Committee ) is established.
(2)
The Advisory Committee consists of the following members appointed by the
Governor:
(a) a
person who has wide experience in urban and regional planning, or a related
discipline;
(b) two
persons with wide experience of local government;
(c) a
person with wide experience in building design or construction;
(d) a
person with wide experience in environmental conservation;
(e) a
person with wide experience in commerce and industry;
(f) a
person with wide experience in agricultural development;
(g) a
person with wide experience in housing or urban development;
(h) a
person with wide experience in planning or providing community services;
(i)
a person with wide experience of the utilities and
services that form the infrastructure of urban development.
(3) In making
appointments to the Advisory Committee the Governor must have regard to the
need for the Committee to be sensitive to cultural diversity in the population
of the State.
(4) At least one
member of the Advisory Committee must be a woman and at least one member must
be a man.
(5) The Governor will
appoint a member of the Advisory Committee to preside at its meetings.
(6) In the absence of
the person appointed under subsection (5) from a meeting of
the Advisory Committee, a member chosen by those present will preside.
(7) Subject to
subsection (8), a member of the Advisory Committee holds office at the
pleasure of the Governor.
(8) A member of the
Advisory Committee ceases to hold office at the expiration of two years, or
such lesser period as the Governor may determine, from the date of appointment
(or last reappointment) unless the Governor reappoints the member to
the Advisory Committee.
(9) The remuneration,
allowances and conditions of appointment of a member of the Advisory Committee
will be as determined by the Governor.
(10) On the office of
a member of the Advisory Committee becoming vacant, a person will be appointed
in accordance with this Act to the vacant office.
(11) An appointment
can only be made under this section after the Minister has, by notice in a
newspaper circulating generally throughout the State, invited interested
persons with appropriate qualifications to submit (within a period specified
in the notice) expressions of interest in appointment to the relevant office.