WHAT DOES THE NEW REORGANISATION ACT COVER?
The Reorganisation Act does five main things. First, it will establish Auckland Council on 1 November 2010. Second, the Act establishes now the Auckland Transition Agency which will plan, manage and implement the reorganisation. Third, the Act sets out the obligations and restrictions on the existing Auckland area local authorities and local government organisations during the transition period. Fourth, the Act will dissolve each existing local authority on 1 November 2010. And finally, the new Act sets out how the functions, duties, powers, assets and information of each dissolved local authority must be dealt with. In general terms, the Act’s themes are those we noted in our previous update on the Government’s initial response to the Royal Commission’s report: • There is an absolute commitment to having an efficient Auckland Council up and running on 1 November 2010; and • ‘One City’ effectively begins now, with quite prescriptive restrictions on the activities of existing councils a
