Local Government (Moira Shire Council) Act 2023 (Vic)

Version No. 002

Local Government (Moira Shire Council) Act 2023

No. 3 of 2023

Version incorporating amendments as at

10 March 2024

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section  Page

Part 1—Preliminary

1Purpose

2Commencement

3Definition

4Construction of Act

Part 2—Dismissal of Moira Shire Council

5Dismissal of Moira Shire Council

6Order in Council

7Provisions applying in respect of an administrator or panel of administrators appointed under section 6

8Effect of Order in Council

9Construction of provisions in any Act or document

10Second general election

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Endnotes

1      General information

2      Table of Amendments

3      Explanatory details

Version No. 002

Local Government (Moira Shire Council) Act 2023

No. 3 of 2023

Version incorporating amendments as at

10 March 2024

The Parliament of Victoria enacts:

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

1Purpose

The purpose of this Act is—

(a)to dismiss the Moira Shire Council; and

(b)to provide for the appointment of an administrator or a panel of administrators for the Moira Shire Council; and

(c)to provide for the expiry of the Order in Council; and

(d)to provide for a second general election for the Moira Shire Council; and

(e)to make consequential amendments to the Local Government Act 2020.

2Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3Definition

In this Act—

Order in Council means the first Order in Council made under section 6 and any further Order in Council made under that section.

4Construction of Act

This Act must be read and construed as if it was part of the Local Government Act 1989 and the Local Government Act 2020.

PART 2—DISMISSAL OF MOIRA SHIRE COUNCIL

5Dismissal of Moira Shire Council

(1)The Moira Shire Council is dismissed.

(2)The persons holding office as Councillors of the Moira Shire Council cease to hold office.

(3)Nothing in this Act affects the continuity of the Moira Shire Council as constituted under this Act by the administrator or panel of administrators appointed under the Order in Council.

6Order in Council

The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, may by Order in Council published in the Government Gazette, do any or all of the following—

(a)appoint an administrator or panel of administrators for the Moira Shire Council;

(b)if a panel of administrators is appointed, appoint one of the administrators to be the Chairperson of the panel of administrators;

(c)appoint a person to fill a vacancy in the office of an administrator;

(d)appoint a temporary administrator in the place of an administrator to act in the administrator's absence or incapacity to act.

7Provisions applying in respect of an administrator or panel of administrators appointed under section 6

The following provisions apply in respect of the appointment of an administrator or a panel of administrators of the Moira Shire Council under section 6—

(a)the administrator or the panel of administrators constitutes the Moira Shire Council and, subject to any conditions of the administrator's appointment or administrators' appointments, must perform all the functions, powers and duties of the Moira Shire Council, which must be treated as if they were performed by the Moira Shire Council;

(b)subject to any conditions of an administrator's appointment, an administrator must perform all the functions, powers and duties of a Councillor of the Moira Shire Council, which must be treated as if they were performed by a Councillor of the Moira Shire Council;

(c)subject to any conditions of the administrator's appointment, the administrator or, if a panel of administrators is appointed, the Chairperson of the panel of administrators, must perform all the functions, powers and duties of the Mayor of the Moira Shire Council, which must be treated as if they were performed by the Mayor of the Moira Shire Council;

(d)an administrator's appointment and anything done by an administrator is not invalid only by reason of a defect in relation to the appointment;

(e)an administrator is entitled to be paid the remuneration and allowances and is employed on the conditions which are fixed by the Minister and the remuneration and allowances are to be paid by the Moira Shire Council;

(f)an administrator—

(i)must not, without the Minister's consent, directly or indirectly engage in any paid employment outside the duties of the office of administrator; and

(ii)may resign by a written notice of resignation addressed to the Governor in Council;

(g)the office of an administrator becomes vacant if the administrator—

(i)becomes bankrupt; or

(ii)dies; or

(iii)is removed or resigns from office; or

(iv)is convicted of an indictable offence or of an offence which, if committed in Victoria, would be an indictable offence; or

(v)becomes incapable of performing the duties of the office.

8Effect of Order in Council

The first Order in Council made under section 6 takes effect on the date specified in the Order in Council.

9Construction of provisions in any Act or document

If provision is made in any Act, regulation, rule, by-law, local law, instrument or document for the Mayor or a Councillor of the Moira Shire Council or the Chairperson or a member of a committee of the Moira Shire Council to be a member of, or to be represented on, a board, Council, committee, commission or other body, or to be a trustee, or to be a member or director of a company, that provision has effect while the Order in Council is

in force as if it provided for an administrator, or some other person appointed by the administrator or the panel of administrators, to be that member, representative, trustee or director.

10Second general election

(1)Despite section 257(1)(b) of the Local Government Act 2020, a second general election of Councillors for the Moira Shire Council is to be held on the fourth Saturday in October 2028.

(2)The Chief Executive Officer must summon a meeting of the Moira Shire Council within 14 days after the day the election manager for the second general election publicly declares the result of the second general election.

(3)The Order in Council expires when that meeting of the Moira Shire Council starts.

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ENDNOTES

1   General information

See for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Assembly: 7 March 2023

Legislative Council: 7 March 2023

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to dismiss the Moira Shire Council, to provide for a second general election for the Moira Shire Council, to make consequential amendments to the Local Government Act 2020 and for other purposes."

The Local Government (Moira Shire Council) Act 2023 was assented to on 9 March 2023 and came into operation on 10 March 2023: section 2.

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided section or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subsections or subclauses, the original section or clause becomes subsection or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original section or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

•     Headings

All headings included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act.  Any heading inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act.  This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; sections; clauses; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms.  See section 36(1A)(2A).

•     Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act.  Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Act.  See section 36(3A).

•     Punctuation

All punctuation included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 forms part of that Act.  Any punctuation inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act.  See section 36(3B).

•     Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in an Act form part of that Act, whether inserted in the Act before, on or after 1 January 2001.  Provision numbers include section numbers, subsection numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs.  See section 36(3C).

•     Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note.  As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of an Act is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision.  For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision.  See section 36B.

•     Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of an Act. 
See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2   Table of Amendments

This publication incorporates amendments made to the Local Government (Moira Shire Council) Act 2023 by Acts and subordinate instruments.

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Local Government (Moira Shire Council) Act 2023, No. 3/2023

Assent Date:	9.3.23
Commencement Date:	S. 13 on 10.3.23: s. 2
Note:	S. 13 repealed Pt 3 (ss 11–13) on 10.3.24
Current State:	This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Local Government (Moira Shire Council) Act 2023

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3   Explanatory details

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