Queensland Consolidated Acts

CONSTITUTION OF QUEENSLAND 2001 - SECT 76

76 No tabling or ratification of dissolution

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a copy of the instrument purporting to dissolve the local government is not tabled under section 73 ; or

(b) the Legislative Assembly refuses to ratify the dissolution of a local government moved by the Minister; or

(c) at the end of 14 sitting days after a copy of the instrument purporting to dissolve the local government is tabled—

(i) the Minister has not moved that the dissolution be ratified; or

(ii) the Legislative Assembly has not ratified the dissolution, even though the Minister has moved that it be ratified.

(2) The effect of the instrument purporting to dissolve the local government ends.

(3) The suspension from office of the local government’s councillors ends and they are reinstated in their respective offices.

(4) The appointment of a body or person appointed to perform all or any functions and exercise all or any powers of the local government because of its purported dissolution ends.