Lord Howe Island Board

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Lord Howe Island Board
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Agency overview
Formed12 February 1913 (Board of Control)
23 April 1954 (Board)
Preceding Agency
  • Lord Howe Island Board of Control
Jurisdiction Lord Howe Island
Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • Atticus Fleming AM , Chairperson
  • Chief Executive Officer
Parent department Department of Planning and Environment
Key documents
Website Lord Howe Island Board

The Lord Howe Island Board is a NSW Statutory Authority established under the Lord Howe Island Act, 1953, to administer Lord Howe Island, an unincorporated island territory within the jurisdiction of the State of New South Wales, Australia, in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. It comprises seven members, of whom four are directly elected by the island population, and reports directly to the New South Wales Minister for Environment and Heritage, and is responsible for the care, control and management of the island. [1] [2]

Contents

Responsibilities

Its duties include the:

The Lord Howe Island Regulation 2014 give effect to the LHI Act by establishing measures for administration including: Board elections, licensing of businesses, environment protection, sale and consumption of alcohol, and placed the board under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1993. [2] [3]

Composition

Since 2004 the Board has comprised seven members, four of whom are elected from the islander community, thus giving the approximately 350 permanent residents a high level of autonomy. [2] The remaining three members (including the Chairperson) are appointed by the Minister of whom:

The full Board meets quarterly on the island while the day-to-day affairs of the island are managed by the Board’s administration which operates in a similar manner to a local government authority in New South Wales, with a permanent staff of 50 led by a Chief Executive Officer. [4] [5]

Legislative history

The Board dates back to 1913, when the Sydney-based Lord Howe Island Board of Control was formed to replace a single magistrate appointed by the NSW Government. The Lord Howe Island Board of Control comprised three members appointed by the Chief Secretary of New South Wales, mostly to regulate the palm seed industry, but also administering the affairs of the island from Sydney until the present Lord Howe Island Board was set up in 1954. [6] [7]

The Lord Howe Island Board commenced operations from 23 April 1954 and comprised five members appointed by the Chief Secretary. The members included the Under Secretary of the Chief Secretary's Department (as Chairman), the responsible Member of Parliament (the Member of the Legislative Assembly for King until 1973), a nominee of the Secretary for Lands (in practice the Under Secretary of the Department of Lands), and two appointed members from the Lord Howe Island Advisory Committee. [8] [9] [10]

In 1981, the Lord Howe Island Amendment Act gave islanders the administrative power of three elected members on a five-member board. [11] Under the Lord Howe Island Amendment Act, 2004, the board now comprises seven members, four of whom are elected from the islander community. [12]

Chairs

#Chairman/ChairpersonTermTime in officeNotes
Lord Howe Island Board of Control
1Frederick Albert Coghlan12 February 1913 – 9 June 19141 year, 117 days [7] [13] [14] [15]
2George Hulton Smyth King9 June 1914 – 24 August 19173 years, 76 days [16] [17]
3 John Fitzpatrick 24 August 1917 – 7 August 193214 years, 349 days [18] [19]
4Edward Burns Harkness CMG 28 October 1932 – 24 November 19386 years, 27 days [20] [21] [22] [23]
5Stanley Llewellyn Anderson25 November 1938 – 16 July 194910 years, 234 days [24] [25]
6Cecil Jones Buttsworth16 July 1949 – 23 April 19544 years, 281 days [26]
Lord Howe Island Board
1Cecil Jones Buttsworth OBE 23 April 1954 – 30 March 19583 years, 341 days [8] [27]
2Arthur Gerald Kingsmill ISO 31 March 1958 – 29 January 197112 years, 304 days [28] [29]
3John Brettell Holliday AM 30 January 1971 – 12 August 19754 years, 194 days [30] [31]
4Rodney Ernest Murdoch12 August 1975 – 19 March 19826 years, 219 days [32] [33]
5Bruce Richard Davies19 March 1982 – 24 August 19831 year, 158 days [34]
6 Gerald Gleeson AC 24 August 1983 – 5 September 19863 years, 12 days [35]
7Frederick Arnold Elliott12 September 1986 – 1989 [36] [37]
8John Frederick Whitehouse1989 – 1990 [38]
9Vivienne Ingram1990 – 1999
10John O'GormanFebruary 1999 – 31 March 2005
11Anthony Fleming1 April 2005 – 3 December 20072 years, 246 days
–Barney Nichols (acting)3 December 2007 – 3 March 2008
12Robert Pallin3 March 2008 – March 2008
13Alistair HenchmanApril 2008 – July 2012
–Barney Nichols (acting)July 2012 – 19 November 2012
14Bob Conroy19 November 2012 – 11 August 2013265 days
15Chris Eccles12 August 2013 – 25 June 2014317 days
–Barney Nichols (acting)25 June 2014 – 26 June 20151 year, 1 day
16Phil Minns26 June 2015 – 27 November 2015154 days [39]
17Sonja Stewart28 November 2015 – 15 July 20193 years, 229 days [40]
18Anissa Levy15 July 2019 – 1 January 20211 year, 170 days [41]
19Atticus Fleming AM 1 January 2021 – date3 years, 249 days [42]

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