2015-08-18 Planning and Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                 18 AUGUST 2015


Pending adoption by Council, the updated Delegations of Authority (summarised in Table 1
below) and new Delegations (summarised in Table 2 below) will be entered into Council’s
Delegations Register. The CEO will then where appropriate, on-delegate various powers to
relevant positions within the organisation to ensure efficient operations.

Delegations Review Process

Pursuant to section 257(4) of the LGA, Delegations to the CEO by Council must be reviewed
annually by the local government. This ensures that the Delegations align with any relevant
legislative changes and new legislation enacted during the previous year. Council previously
adopted the majority of its current delegations at its Ordinary Meeting of 31 July 2014.

LGAQ provides local governments with a ‘Delegations Register Service’. This service
outlines all possible delegations within the list of local government related legislation in the
following two documents:

1.    The Register of Delegations – Council to CEO; and
2.    The Register of Delegations – CEO to Employee or Contractor.

The Governance Branch uses the content of the registers provided by LGAQ to review
Council’s Delegation of Authority documents and put forward changes to current delegations
and new delegations for Council to consider for adoption.

LGAQ engages King & Company Solicitors to provide assurance that it’s Delegations
Register Service are up to date and can be relied upon by local governments.

LGAQ advises that it is unlikely that all of the powers identified in the King & Company
documents will be applicable to any one Council, and it is up to Council to decide the powers
that are relevant to its operations and are required to be delegated. In not delegating a
particular power of a local government, Council alone (not the CEO) may exercise the power
in the event that it is required to be exercised by the organisation.


2015 Annual Review

The Governance Officer recently completed the annual review of delegations for the 2015/16
period, which has identified (via the LGAQ service) a number of required amendments to the
current Council to CEO delegations relating to the following Acts:

    Disaster Management Act 2003 and Disaster Management Regulation 2014;
    Building Act 1975;
    Environmental Protection Act 1994;
    Land Act 1994;
    Plumbing and Drainage Act 2002;
    Transport Operations Road Use Management Act 1995;
    Sustainable Planning Act 2009;
    Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011;
    Fire and Rescue Service Act 1990;
    Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011; and
    Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Regulation 2014.




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