LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 3.17

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 3.17

3.17 .         Governor may amend or repeal local laws

        (1)         The Governor may make local laws to amend the text of, or repeal, a local law.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not include the power to amend a local law to include in it any provision that bears no reasonable relationship to the local law as in force before the amendment.

        (3)         The Minister is to give a local government notice in writing of any local law that the Governor makes to amend the text of, or repeal, any of the local government’s local laws.

        (4)         Section 5.94 applies as if a local law made under this section by the Governor were a local law made by the local government in accordance with section 3.12.

        (5)         The reference in the Interpretation Act 1984 section 42(8)(b) to local laws includes local laws made under this section by the Governor.

        [Section 3.17 amended: No. 16 of 2019 s. 10.]