30Appointing a board to control and manage a reserve

1. For the better carrying out of the purposes of any reserve vested in the Crown, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, appoint such persons as he or she thinks fit to be a reserves board, trust, trust board, or other special board to control and manage the reserve for the purpose of its classification and in accordance with the appropriate provisions of this Act, and subject to such additional conditions or restrictions as may be specified in the notice. Every such notice shall take effect according to its tenor. Any person so appointed may be appointed by virtue of any office.

2. Notwithstanding anything in section 10, the Minister may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, authorise the Commissioner to appoint, by instrument under his or her hand publicly notified once in 1 or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the reserve is situated, such persons as the Commissioner thinks fit, not exceeding 9 in number, to be a reserves board to control and manage any reserve specified in the Gazette notice. A reserves board so appointed shall control and manage the reserve for the purpose of its classification in accordance with the appropriate provisions of this Act, and subject to such additional conditions and restrictions as may be specified in the instrument. Every such notice shall take effect according to its tenor. Any person so appointed may be appointed by virtue of any office.

3. The Minister, or the Commissioner, as the case may be, may, by the notice appointing those persons or by a subsequent notice under his or her hand, appoint one of them to be chairperson of the board for the term of his or her appointment or for such period as the Minister or the Commissioner, as the case may be, thinks fit:

   provided that the Minister or the Commissioner, as the case may be, may from time to time, by notice under his or her hand, remove any chairperson from his or her office as such and appoint a new chairperson in his or her place.

4. The Minister may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, or, in any case to which subsection (2) applies, the Commissioner may by instrument under his or her hand publicly notified once in 1 or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the reserve is situated, make such additional appointments of members as he or she thinks necessary, but the appointments made by the Commissioner shall not increase the number of members of the board to more than 9. Those members shall be appointed for the remainder of the term for which the board was originally appointed.

5. The Minister or the Commissioner, as the case may be, may from time to time by like notice reduce the number of members of any board, and for that purpose may revoke the appointments of such members as may thereby be rendered necessary.

6. The Minister or the Commissioner, as the case may be, may from time to time by a like notice revoke the appointment of any board or of any member of any board.

7. Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) or subsection (4), where there is no newspaper circulating in the locality in which the reserve is situated, an instrument under the said subsection (2) or subsection (4) shall be notified once in the Gazette.

8. There shall be paid, out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, to the members of any reserves board, trust, trust board, or other special board appointed under subsection (1) who are not members by virtue of being officers of any department of State remuneration by way of fees, salary, or allowances and travelling allowances and expenses in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951, and the provisions of that Act shall apply accordingly as if the reserves board, trust, trust board, or other special board, as the case may be, were a statutory board within the meaning of that Act.