This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Reorganisation Proposals) Amendment Act 1992, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Local Government Act 1974 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

In this Act, “Far North District” means the district constituted by clause 34 of the Local Government (Northland Region) Reorganisation Order 1989 (Gazette, 1989, Vol. III, p. 2391).

Any reorganisation proposal providing for the division of any designated district into two districts or for the constitution of a new district for part of any designated district may, on or after the 1st day of July 1992, be initiated and dealt with under Parts IIb, IIba, IIbb, and IIbc of the principal Act (as set out in section 8(1) of the Local Government Amendment Act 1992) as if those Parts of the principal Act, and sections 8 and 71 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1992, which are to come into force on the 10th day of October 1992, had come into force on the 1st day of July 1992.

Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the Governor- General may from time to time, by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Local Government, being advice given by that Minister at the request of a local authority for a district (other than a region), declare that district to be a designated district for the purposes of this section.

No Order in Council shall be made under subsection (2) of this section after the 31st day of August 1992.

In this section “designated district” means—