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ARTICLE · 05 AUGUST 2014

Local laws and amalgamations in Western Australia

Kott Gunning
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A local government must deal with managing, administering and consolidating its local laws following an amalgamation.

AustraliaGovernment, Public Sector
Brenton Oakley
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Introduction

A very important issue for Local Governments to deal with following an amalgamation will be managing, administering and consolidating the local laws.

Local Governments that are involved in amalgamation will find themselves on the day of Commencement of the new Local Government having two or more sets of local laws.

The term Commencement in this paper means the day of commencement of any amalgamation order made by the Governor on the recommendation of the Minister pursuant to section 2.1 of the Local Government Act 1995 (WA) (the Act).

The Immediate Legal Position

The immediate legal position of how and what local laws will apply is relatively straight forward.

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