LOCAL BODY LAW
NEED FOR SIMPLIFICATION
Local body administration was a highly-specialised profession, and the law governing it was far from simple, said the Electric Power Board and Supply Authorities' Association to the Parliamentary Committee on Local Government today.
It was suggested that administration would be much more simple and consequently less prone to error if the law were classified and consolidated so as to include in one Act all machinery and finance legislation that was generally applicable to local bodies, and to include in the special Acts only those provisions that had a particular application.
The association urged, too, the desirability of making amendments to the Acts themselves instead of continuing the established practice whereby local body law was set out in so many apparently unrelated enactments. The association disagreed with the recent amendment in the law to permit employees holding a seat on their employing authority. The position of any man who was at once employer and employed, it said, was quite incongruous.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 6
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165LOCAL BODY LAW Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 6
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