Natural Resources Management (Extension of Terms of Office) Amendment Act 2007 (SA)

South Australia

Natural Resources Management (Extension of Terms of Office) Amendment Act 2007

An Act to amend the Natural Resources Management Act 2004.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Natural Resources Management (Extension of Terms of Office) Amendment Act 2007.

2—Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Natural Resources Management Act 2004

3—Insertion of Schedule 4 clause 57

Schedule 4—after clause 56 insert:

57—Governor may extend term of office etc

1. (1)

   Despite any other provision of this Act, the Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, extend the term of office of a member of the NRM Council, or of a regional NRM board, appointed prior to the commencement of this clause (but not so the total term of office of the member exceeds 3 years).

2. (2)

   The Governor may, in the same notice, make provision for the continuation of fees, allowances and expenses to be paid to the member for the period of the extension.

3. (3)

   If the Governor extends the term of office of a member under this clause, the term of office specified in the instrument of appointment of the member will be taken to be, and to always have been, the term as so extended.