Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Chinatown Historic Precinct Act 1984 - SECT 5

PART II CHINATOWN HISTORIC PRECINCT COMMITTEE

Chinatown Historic Precinct Committee

5. Chinatown Historic Precinct Committee



(1) There shall be a Chinatown Historic Precinct Committee.

(2) The Committee shall consist of 12 members appointed by the Governor in
Council, of whom-

   (a)  one shall be a councillor of the Council nominated by the Council,
        being a councillor elected in respect of a Ward of the City of
        Melbourne within which the precinct or part of the precinct is
        situated;

   (b)  one shall be an officer of the Council or another councillor nominated
        by the Council;

   (c)  two shall be nominated by the Chairman of Tourism Victoria;



   (d)  two shall be nominated by the Minister for Planning and Environment,
        of whom one shall be a person who has experience in relation to the
        conservation of historic buildings;

   (e)  three shall be nominated by the Federation of Chinese Associations, of
        whom at least one shall be a member of the Chinese Professional and
        Businessmen's Association; and

   (f)  three shall be nominated by the Melbourne Chinatown Association, of
        whom at least one shall be a person involved in or employed by a
        business carried on on rateable property in the vicinity of the
        precinct.

(3) Where any body or person referred to in subsection (2) fails to make a
nomination within two months after being requested in writing by the Minister
to do so, the Governor in Council may appoint any person considered suitable
and any person so appointed shall be deemed to have been nominated by the body
or person who failed to make the nomination.

(4) The Governor in Council shall appoint one of the members of the Committee
nominated under subsection (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d) to be Chairman of the
Committee.

(5) In this section, rateable property means property within the City of
Melbourne that is rateable property within the meaning of Part 8 of the
Local Government Act 1989.