New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (CITY OF SYDNEY BOUNDARIES) ACT 1967 - SECT 19

19 Finance Joint Committee

(1) There shall be constituted a joint committee, which shall be called the Finance Joint Committee, and which shall consist of six members as follows:

(a) the Auditor-General or his nominee, who shall convene all meetings of the Finance Joint Committee and shall be chairman of the meetings,

(b) the Under Secretary of the Department of Local Government, or his nominee,

(c) the Town Clerk of the Council of the City of Sydney or, in the absence through sickness or other good cause of the Town Clerk, his nominee,

(d) a Commissioner, or a servant of the Council of the City of Sydney, nominated by the Commissioners and appointed by the Minister,

(e) a person employed by a municipal, shire or county council, who shall be a person who holds a prescribed certificate, and at the date of his appointment, holds office as a council clerk, and who shall be nominated by the Local Government Association of New South Wales, and appointed by the Minister, and

(f) a person nominated by the Local Government Association of New South Wales and appointed by the Minister.

(2) If a nomination is not made within thirty days after the day upon which the Under Secretary of the Department of Local Government has, in writing, called for nominations to fill any position referred to in paragraph (d), (e) or (f) of subsection one of this section, the Minister may appoint any person to fill that position.

(3) Four members of the Finance Joint Committee, one of whom shall be the chairman, shall form a quorum.

(4) Where the voting on any question at a meeting of the Finance Joint Committee is equal the chairman shall, in addition to his original vote, have a second or casting vote.

(5) The members of the Finance Joint Committee shall cease to hold office upon the day on which the elections referred to in subsection one of section twenty-five of this Act are held or where those elections are held on different days upon the later of those days.