LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 5.10
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 5.10
5.10 . Committee members, appointment of
(1) A committee is to
have as its members —
(a)
persons appointed* by the local government to be members of the committee
(other than those referred to in paragraph (b)); and
(b)
persons who are appointed to be members of the committee under subsection (4)
or (5).
* Absolute majority required.
(2) At any given time
each council member is entitled to be a member of at least one committee
referred to in section 5.9(2)(a) or (b) and if a council member nominates
himself or herself to be a member of such a committee or committees, the local
government is to include that council member in the persons appointed under
subsection (1)(a) to at least one of those committees as the local government
decides.
(3) Section 52 of the
Interpretation Act 1984 applies to appointments of committee members other
than those appointed under subsection (4) or (5) but any power exercised under
section 52(1) of that Act can only be exercised on the decision of an absolute
majority of the council.
(4) If at a meeting of
the council a local government is to make an appointment to a committee that
has or could have a council member as a member and the mayor or president
informs the local government of his or her wish to be a member of the
committee, the local government is to appoint the mayor or president to be a
member of the committee.
(5) If at a meeting of
the council a local government is to make an appointment to a committee that
has or will have an employee as a member and the CEO informs the local
government of his or her wish —
(a) to
be a member of the committee; or
(b) that
a representative of the CEO be a member of the committee,
the local government
is to appoint the CEO or the CEO’s representative, as the case may be,
to be a member of the committee.
[Section 5.10 amended: No. 16 of 2019 s. 18.]