New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITIES ACT 2003 - SECT 13

13 Appointment of administrator

(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, appoint an administrator to exercise all the functions, or specified functions, of an authority if the Minister is satisfied that the authority has failed to comply with its obligations under this Act, that the property of the authority has not been properly applied or managed or that the board has ceased to function effectively in managing the affairs of the authority.

(2) An administrator has, during his or her term of office and to the exclusion of the board of the authority, the functions the administrator was appointed to exercise.

(3) The general manager and other staff of the authority are required:

(a) to provide accommodation for the administrator and his or her assistants at the offices of the authority if requested to do so by the administrator, and

(b) to assist, and to refrain from obstructing, the administrator in the exercise of his or her functions.