5Local government’s functions

5. Local government’s functions

(1) Subject to the Minister, and in co‑operation with the Director General, it shall be the duty of a local government to administer and enforce the provisions of this Act within its district.

[(2) deleted]

(3) Where in the opinion of the Governor the powers conferred by this Act on a local government should be exercised by that local government in an area outside the district the Governor may by Order published in the Government Gazette declare that for the purpose of this Act the area is to be regarded as being within the district and the provisions of this Act shall then apply as if in fact the area were within the district.

(4) For the purposes of this Act a district shall be taken to include the land lying between mean high water mark at spring tides of the main sea and mean low water mark at spring tides of the main sea adjacent to that district.

[(5) deleted]

[Section 5 amended: No. 106 of 1981 s. 32 and 34; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 76 of 1996 s. 27; No. 7 of 2002 s. 6; No. 16 of 2019 s. 101.]