LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 88 Members of a community forum

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 88

88 Members of a community forum

(1) This section is about the members of a community forum.

(2) A person is appointed as a member of a community forum (other than as chairperson)—

(a) by a resolution of the indigenous regional council for the forum; and

(b) under a merits based selection process conducted by the indigenous regional council for the forum after a call for expressions of interest in appointment is advertised—

(i) on the indigenous regional council’s website; and

(ii) in other ways the council considers appropriate.

(3) A person is not qualified to be appointed as a member if the person is the mayor of the indigenous regional council.

(4) A person stops being a member if the person—

(a) resigns by signed notice of resignation given to the indigenous regional council for the community forum; or

(b) completes a term of office and is not re-appointed.