12Provision of services and facilities in the transferred land area during the transitional period

12 Provision of services and facilities in the transferred land area during the transitional period

12 Provision of services and facilities in the transferred land area during the transitional period

(1) The services and facilities provided by Armidale Regional Council to residents and ratepayers in the transferred land area immediately before the date of commencement of this Proclamation are to continue to be provided by Armidale Regional Council, from the funds and resources of Armidale Regional Council, during the transitional period, at the same level and in the same manner as was provided by Armidale Regional Council immediately before that date of commencement.

(2) However, the services and facilities provided to residents and ratepayers in the transferred land area may be varied if Inverell Council or the Minister agree to the variation.

(3) Without limiting the operation of subclause (1), and subject to any agreement reached under subclause (2), the services and facilities to be provided in the transferred land area by Armidale Regional Council in the transitional period include the following:

(a) street cleansing,

(b) domestic waste collection,

(c) roads and foot-way management and maintenance,

(d) management and maintenance of parks,

(e) all community services (including the operation of community, recreation and aged care centres, programs for the homeless, libraries, child care centres and swimming pools),

(f) contract management in respect of all works in the transferred land area,

(g) property management and maintenance,

(h) issuing all certificates (including certificates issued under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979),

(i) building compliance inspections,

(j) the provision of all goods and services necessary or ancillary to the provision of the above.