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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 164

164 Dissolution of local government

(1) The Governor in Council may, by regulation, dissolve a local government if the Minister is satisfied that the local government--

(a) has acted unlawfully or corruptly; or
(b) has acted in a way that puts at risk its capacity to exercise properly its jurisdiction of local government; or
(c) is incompetent or can not properly exercise its jurisdiction of local government.

(2) Subsection (1) is subject to the Constitution of Queensland 2001, chapter 7, part 2.

(3) If the Legislative Assembly ratifies the dissolution of the local government under subsection (1)--

(a) the local government's councillors go out of office; and
(b) the local government continues in existence and continues to be constituted by the local government's administrator.


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