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of the Principal Act made by this Division apply to annual reports of Regional Councils for the financial year ending on 30 June 1994 and for each later financial year.

Division 2—Transitional provisions relating to the annual reports of
Regional Councils

This Division does not apply to the Torres Strait Regional Council

  36. This Division does not apply to the Torres Strait Regional Council.

Definitions

  37. In this Division:

"amended Act" means the Principal Act as amended by this Act;

"new Regional Council" means a Regional Council consisting of members elected in the round of Regional Council elections for 1993 (ignoring any member who fills a casual vacancy);

"old Regional Council" means a Regional Council consisting of members elected in the first round of Regional Council elections (ignoring any member who fills a casual vacancy).

Minister may determine the predecessor or predecessors of a new Regional Council

  38.(1) The Minister may make a written determination that:

     (a) a specified old Regional Council is the predecessor of a specified new Regional Council for the purposes of this Division; or

     (b) 2 or more specified old Regional Councils are the predecessors of a single specified new Regional Council for the purposes of this Division.

(2) A determination is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

Transitional provision—annual report of new Regional Council to deal with the operations of its predecessor or predecessors

39.(1) This section applies to the annual report of a new Regional Council prepared under section 99 of the amended Act for the financial year ending on 30 June 1994.

(2) In addition to the matters which section 99 of the amended Act requires the report to deal with, the report must also deal with the operations during that financial year of the predecessor, or predecessors, of the new Regional Council.

Transitional provision—annual report of new Regional Council

40.(1) This section applies to the annual report of a new Regional Council prepared under section 99 of the amended Act for the financial year ending on 30 June 1994.

(2) In addition to the matters which section 99 of the amended Act requires the report to deal with, the Minister may determine that the report must also deal with:

     (a) specified aspects of the operations during that year of a specified old Regional Council; and

     (b) specified aspects of the implementation during that year of the regional plan for the former region corresponding to that old Regional Council.

PART 16—AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE DRAFT BUDGETS OF REGIONAL COUNCILS

Regional Councils to prepare draft budgets

41. Section 97 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:

  "(2)