Dog Control Act 1996

Functions, duties, and powers of territorial authorities

7: Power to appoint joint committees

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"Councils can work together to make a joint committee for dog control"

You can work with other territorial authorities to appoint a joint committee for dog control. This is allowed under clause 30(1)(b) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002. You can only work with other territorial authorities, not with other local authorities or public bodies.

When you work together, the joint committee is like a territorial authority and has the same functions, duties, and powers. The district of each territorial authority is also considered the district of the joint committee. However, the individual territorial authorities cannot perform functions or exercise powers under the Dog Control Act on their own.

The joint committee can give some of its functions, duties, and powers to the individual territorial authorities. But it cannot give away the functions, duties, and powers related to certain sections of the Act, such as sections 10, 11, 37, 38, and 39. The joint committee can take back these functions, duties, and powers at any time, and giving them away does not stop the joint committee from using its own powers.

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6: Functions, duties, and powers of territorial authorities, or

"What councils must do and can do to help with dog ownership"

8: Performance of functions, or

"How councils do their job under the Dog Control Act 1996"

7Power to appoint joint committees

Subject to this section, any territorial authority may unite with 1 or more territorial authorities in appointing a joint committee under clause 30(1)(b) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002 for the purposes of this Act.
No territorial authority may unite under clause 30(1)(b) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002 for the purposes of this Act with any local authority or public body that is not a territorial authority.
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, where any territorial authorities unite under clause 30(1)(b) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002 for the purposes of this Act,—
the joint committee appointed under that clause is, for the purposes of this Act, deemed to be a territorial authority and has all the functions, duties, and powers conferred on a territorial authority by this Act; and
the district of each of the territorial authorities that so unite are, for the purposes of this Act, deemed to be the district of that territorial authority; and
except as provided in this section, the territorial authorities that so unite may not perform any function or exercise any power under this Act.

Where any territorial authorities unite under clause 30(1)(b) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002 for the purposes of this Act, the joint committee may delegate to any of the territorial authorities that so unite any of the functions, duties, and powers conferred on that joint committee by this Act, other than the functions, duties, and powers conferred on it by sections 10, 11, 37, 38, and 39.
Every delegation under subsection (4) is revocable at will, and no such delegation prevents the exercise of any power by the joint committee.

Notes

Section 7: substituted, on 1 July 2003, by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).