South Australia

   Roxby Downs (Local Government Arrangement) Regulations 1997

   under the Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982

   Contents
   1 Short title
   2 Commencement
   3 Revocation
   4 Interpretation
   5 General powers of the council
   6 Administrator to act in name of council
   7 Proclamation providing for certain matters

   Legislative history

   1--Short title

   These regulations may be cited as the Roxby Downs (Local Government
   Arrangement) Regulations 1997.

   2--Commencement

   These regulations will come into operation on the day on which they are
   made.

   3--Revocation

   The following regulations are revoked:

   (a) the Roxby Downs (Local Government Arrangement) Regulations 1986;

   (b) the Roxby Downs (Constitution of Council) Regulations 1986.

   4--Interpretation

   In these regulations--

   Act means the Roxby Downs (Indenture Ratification) Act 1982;

   Administrator means the Administrator of the municipal council
   appointed under the Act and the Indenture;

   municipal council means the Municipal Council of Roxby Downs
   constituted by proclamation pursuant to the Local Government Act 1934
   and the Act.

   5--General powers of the council

   The municipal council--

   (a) continues as a body corporate with perpetual succession and a
   common seal; and

   (b) is capable in its corporate name of acquiring, holding, dealing
   with and disposing of real and personal property; and

   (c) is capable of acquiring or incurring other rights or liabilities
   and of suing and being sued in its corporate name.

   6--Administrator to act in name of council

   The Administrator will exercise all the powers and discharge all the
   functions of the municipal council in the name of and on behalf of the
   council.

   7--Proclamation providing for certain matters

   (1) The Governor may, by proclamation made before the expiration of the
   administration of the municipal council by the Administrator under the
   Indenture--

   (a) determine whether the council is to have a mayor or a chairperson;
   and

   (b) determine the number of councillors who are to constitute, or to be
   included in, the membership of the council; and

   (c) divide the area of the council into wards; and

   (d) determine the boundaries of each ward, the name of each ward, and
   the number of councillors to be elected for each ward (which number may
   vary from ward to ward); and

   (e) determine whether the membership of the council is to include
   aldermen and, if so, how many; and

   (f) appoint, or provide for the election of, the first members of the
   council.

   (2) Section 14(1) of the Local Government Act 1934 will not apply to a
   proclamation under subregulation (1).

   (3) A proclamation under subregulation (1) will have effect from the
   expiration of the administration of the municipal council by the
   Administrator under the Indenture.

   Legislative history

   Notes

   o For further information relating to the Act and subordinate
   legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian
   Statutes.

   Principal regulations

   Year
       No
          Reference
                                Commencement
   1997
       194
          Gazette 28.8.1997 p552
                                28.8.1997: r 2