'No scope for resignation'
So far as he was aware, there were no specific provisions in the Town and Country Planning Act relating to resignations by member-councils of regional planning authorities, said the Acting Minister of Works (Mr Walker), in a letter received by the Heathcote County Council last evening.
The council had sought the Minister’s advice on its decision last month to resign from the Christchurch Regional Planning Authority. The Minister said that the act provided in effect that every regional authority should continue until it was dissolved, upon resolutions passed by not less than a two-thirds majority of the member-councils.
He was empowered from time to time to alter the
region controlled by an authority, but in doing this he would be guided by the principles and provisions set out in the act relating to the continuing existence of the authority after completion of a regional-planning scheme. Although the Minister suggested that the council might take legal advice on the interpretation of the act, the council accepted a recommendation from its town planning committee to “receive” the letter.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32588, 23 April 1971, Page 10
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