{"id":"regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994","name":"Regional Development Commissions Regulations 1994","slug":"regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":181826,"registerId":"wa-regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Regional Development Commissions Regulations 1994","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nRegional Development Commissions Act 1993\n\nRegional Development Commissions Regulations 1994\n\nWestern Australia\n\nRegional Development Commissions Regulations 1994\n\nContents\n\n1. Citation 1\n\n2. Appointed members of boards 1\n\n11. Board members resident in the region — method of nomination (section 16) 1\n\n12. Members nominated by local government authorities —method of nomination (section 16) 2\n\n13. Savings provision for appointed members 3\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 5\n\nOther notes 5\n\nDefined terms\n\n  \n\nRegional Development Commissions Act 1993\n\nRegional Development Commissions Regulations 1994\n\n##### 1. Citation\n\nThese regulations may be cited as the *Regional Development Commissions Regulations 1994*.\n\n##### 2. Appointed members of boards\n\nFor the purposes of section 15(1)(b) of the Act, the board of management of a commission is to have 6 appointed members of whom —\n\n(a) 2 are to be persons who are resident in the commission’s region and nominated in accordance with regulation 11;\n\n(b) 2 are nominated by local governments in that region in accordance with regulation 12; and\n\n(c) 2 are to be appointed at the Minister’s discretion.\n\n[Regulation 2 inserted: Gazette 29 Apr 1997 p. 2140; amended: Gazette 29 Aug 2017 p. 4595.]\n\n[**3‑10.** Deleted: Gazette 29 Apr 1997 p. 2140.]\n\n##### 11. Board members resident in the region — method of nomination (section 16)\n\n(1) The members referred to in regulation 2(a) must be nominated in the following manner —\n\n(a) nominations will be sought from —\n\n(i) the community, by way of advertisements placed in newspapers circulating in the appropriate region; and\n\n(ii) a wide range of community organisations, including employer and employee groups, education and training institutions, tourism and recreation bodies and other sections of the community, by way of direct correspondence with those organisations;\n\n(b) the period for nominations will be noted on the advertisement or correspondence, being a period of not less than 28 days from the day on which the advertisement is published or the correspondence is sent (as the case may be).\n\n(2) Where nominations are sought for a particular region in accordance with subregulation (1) and —\n\n(i) names have not been provided by the community and the community organisations in that region; or\n\n(ii) sufficient nominations are not received by the Minister,\n\nwithin the nomination period, the Minister may (after the expiry of the nomination period) nominate for appointment to the board as members such persons as he or she thinks fit, in sufficient numbers to fill the remaining places available, and those persons are appointed as if they were nominated in accordance with subregulation (1).\n\n[Regulation 11 amended: Gazette 29 Apr 1997 p. 2140; SL 2021/172 r. 4.]\n\n##### 12. Members nominated by local government authorities —method of nomination (section 16)\n\n(1) The members referred to in regulation 2(b) must be nominated in the following manner —\n\n(a) nominations will be sought from local governments in the appropriate region by way of direct correspondence with those local governments;\n\n(b) the local governments will be requested to provide the names of twice as many persons who are willing and able to be candidates for appointment as there are places available to local government nominees on the board in that region;\n\n(c) the period for nominations will be noted on the correspondence, being a period of not less than 42 days from the day on which the correspondence is sent.\n\n(2) Where local governments have been requested to provide the names of twice as many persons who are willing and able to be candidates for appointment as there are places available to local government nominees on the board in that region and —\n\n(i) a list of names has not been provided by any of the local governments in that region; or\n\n(ii) sufficient nominations are not received by the Minister,\n\nwithin the nomination period, the Minister may (after the expiry of the nomination period) nominate for appointment to the board as members such persons as he or she thinks fit, in sufficient numbers to fill the remaining places available, and those persons are appointed as if they were nominated in accordance with subregulation (1).\n\n[Regulation 12 amended: Gazette 29 Apr 1997 p. 2140‑1.]\n\n##### 13. Savings provision for appointed members\n\n(1) In this regulation —\n\ncommencement day means the day on which the *Regional Development Commissions Amendment Regulations 2017* regulation 4 comes into operation.\n\n(2) This regulation applies to a person who, immediately before commencement day, held office as an appointed member.\n\n(3) To avoid doubt, the person continues in that office for the balance of the term of appointment that applied to the person immediately before commencement day despite the amendments made by the *Regional Development Commissions Amendment Regulations 2017*.\n\n[Regulation 13 inserted: Gazette 29 Aug 2017 p. 4595.]\n\n![]()\n\nNotes\n\nThis is a compilation of the *Regional Development Commissions Regulations 1994* and includes amendments made by other written laws. For provisions that have come into operation, and for information about any reprints, see the compilation table.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Citation** | **Published** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| *Regional Development Commissions Regulations 1994* | 1 Mar 1994 p. 779‑82 | 1 Mar 1994 |\n| *Regional Development Commissions Amendment Regulations 1997* 1 | 29 Apr 1997 p. 2140‑1 | 29 Apr 1997 |\n| **Reprint 1: The *Regional Development Commissions Regulations 1994* as at 8 Dec 2006** (includes amendments listed above) | | |\n| *Regional Development Commissions Amendment Regulations 2017* | 29 Aug 2017 p. 4594‑5 | r. 1 and 2: 29 Aug 2017 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 30 Aug 2017 (see r. 2(b)) |\n| *Regional Development Commissions Amendment Regulations 2021* | SL 2021/172 8 Oct 2021 | r. 1 and 2: 8 Oct 2021 (see r. 2(a));   Regulations other than r. 1 and 2: 9 Oct 2021 (see r. 2(b)) |\n\n\nOther notes\n\n1 The *Regional Development Commissions Amendment Regulations 1997* r. 3(2) is a transitional provision that is of no further effect.\n\nDefined terms\n\n*[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]*\n\n**Defined term Provision(s)**\n\ncommencement day 13(1)\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The regulations have been amended since their original 1994 form. A 1997 amendment inserted the detailed appointed-member structure now in reg 2 and deleted intermediary provisions (regs 3–10). The 2017 amendment added a savings/transitional provision preserving incumbent appointed members' terms (reg 13). Subsequent amendments (including 2021) are recorded in the compilation table. Those changes altered the mechanics of board composition and transitional arrangements while leaving nomination procedures in regs 11–12."},"complexity_factors":["Cross-reference to the Regional Development Commissions Act (see reg 2 referencing s.15(1)(b) and regs 11–12 referencing s.16) increases interpretive steps needed.","Distinct nomination pathways with different procedural requirements and minimum timeframes: public/advice process for resident nominees (reg 11(1)(a) and (b); 28-day minimum) and direct requests to local governments (reg 12(1)(a)–(c); 42-day minimum).","Ministerial discretion to appoint remaining members where nominations are lacking (reg 11(2) and reg 12(2); reg 2(c) creates two discretionary appointee slots) concentrates decision-making power and creates substitute appointment mechanics.","Transitional/savings provision preserving existing appointees' terms after the 2017 amendment (reg 13) creates temporal rules to apply alongside current composition rules.","Legislative history (deleted regs 3–10; amendments in 1997, 2017, 2021 shown in compilation table) requires checking versions for historical obligations and may complicate advice about past conduct.","Administrative responsibilities (public advertisements, direct correspondence and managing nomination lists) are specified procedurally but the regulations do not state which agency bears associated costs, leaving an implementation gap."],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations set how regional development commission boards are formed: each board has six appointed members — two resident nominees (reg 2(a)), two nominated by local governments (reg 2(b)), and two appointed at the Minister’s discretion (reg 2(c)). They prescribe nomination steps (public advertisements and outreach for resident nominees; direct requests to local governments with minimum notice periods) and allow the Minister to appoint if nominations are insufficient (regs 11–12). A 2017 provision preserves existing appointed members’ terms (reg 13)."},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be assessed as no legislative text was retrievable from the provided source. The page returned was a system error notice, not the regulations themselves."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative text was available for analysis — the source URL returned a 'page not found' error page rather than any legal content","Complexity cannot be meaningfully assessed without access to the actual instrument","Score of 1 reflects absence of content, not simplicity of the underlying law"],"plain_english_summary":"**No legislation could be analysed.**\n\nThe link provided does not lead to the actual text of the *Regional Development Commissions Regulations 1994* (Western Australia). Instead, it returns an error page explaining that the page is no longer available due to system and security upgrades on the Western Australian legislation website.\n\n**What this means for you:** No legal content was retrievable, so no meaningful summary of how this law affects you can be provided. To find the actual regulations, try:\n- Visiting the [Western Australian Legislation website](https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au) directly and searching for \"Regional Development Commissions Regulations 1994\"\n- Contacting the Parliamentary Counsel's Office Helpdesk as suggested on the error page"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations remain tightly focused on their original purpose: establishing the nomination methods for board members of Regional Development Commissions. While amendments in 1997, 2017, and 2021 have refined the nomination timeframes and added a savings provision for existing members, the scope has not expanded beyond procedural matters for board appointments. The deletion of regulations 3-10 in 1997 actually narrowed the content rather than expanding it."},"complexity_factors":["Very short document (only 4 substantive regulations, with regulations 3-10 deleted)","Only 1 defined term ('commencement day' in regulation 13)","Minimal cross-referencing (only references to the parent Act's sections 15 and 16, and internal references between regulations 2, 11, and 12)","Simple conditional logic limited to fallback scenarios where nominations are insufficient (regulations 11(2) and 12(2))","Straightforward procedural rules without nested exceptions or intricate compliance requirements","No financial calculations, penalty provisions, or enforcement mechanisms"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations set the rules for how board members are chosen for Western Australia's Regional Development Commissions.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Establishes that each commission's board has **6 appointed members**, split three ways:\n  - **2 members** nominated by local residents (through public ads and community groups)\n  - **2 members** nominated by local councils (local government authorities)\n  - **2 members** picked directly by the Minister\n\n**How nominations work:**\n- **Community nominees (Regulation 11):** The Minister advertises in regional newspapers and writes to community groups (unions, schools, tourism bodies, etc.) asking for names. People have at least 28 days to respond. If not enough people put their hands up, the Minister can pick whoever they want to fill the gaps.\n- **Local government nominees (Regulation 12):** The Minister writes to councils asking for twice as many candidates as there are spots. Councils get at least 42 days to respond. Again, if councils don't deliver enough names, the Minister can appoint whoever they see fit.\n\n**Savings provision (Regulation 13):**\n- Protects existing board members when the rules changed in 2017, letting them finish their terms even though the nomination process had been updated.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- People living in WA's regions who want to serve on development boards\n- Local councils in those regions\n- The Minister for Regional Development\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThese rules determine who gets a say in how regional WA is developed. The split between community, council, and ministerial appointees is designed to balance local voice with government oversight. The \"fallback\" powers (letting the Minister pick if nominations fall short) ensure boards can always be filled, but also concentrate power in the Minister's hands if community engagement is low."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994","history":"/api/acts/regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994/history","analysis":"/api/acts/regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/regional-development-commissions-regulations-1994/documents"}}