PART 7PANELS OF RESERVOIR ENGINEERS

105Dissolution or alteration of panels etc.

(1)

The Department may dissolve or alter a panel established under section 102(1)(a).

(2)

Before doing so, the Department must serve reasonable notice on the members of the panel.

(3)

The Department may allow a civil engineer who, immediately before the dissolution or alteration was commissioned under this Act in relation to a controlled reservoir, to continue to act for a period of up to 4 years for the purpose for which the engineer was commissioned; and the engineer is to be regarded as continuing to be commissioned under this Act for the purpose.

(4)

But the Department may, by notice, direct that a civil engineer is no longer entitled to act under subsection (3) where it is satisfied that the engineer is no longer suitable to do so.

(5)

Notice under subsection (4) must specify the grounds for the direction under that subsection.

(6)

The Department may by order amend the period specified for the time being in subsection (3).