Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

Local authority meetings

54: This Part to prevail over other enactments

You could also call this:

"This part of the law is more important than other laws about local authority meetings."

Illustration for Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

If you are looking at rules about attending local authority meetings, you need to follow the rules in this Part. These rules override any other laws that might say something different about attending meetings or looking at meeting minutes. When you read other laws about this topic, you should consider them in relation to the rules outlined in this Part.

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53: Oral statements at local authority meetings privileged, or

"You can't be sued for what you say at a local council meeting, unless you said it to be mean or take advantage."

55: Regulations, or

"Rules made by the Governor-General to help the law work properly"

Part 7Local authority meetings

54This Part to prevail over other enactments

Any provisions in any enactment in relation to attendance by the public at any meeting of any local authority or at any meeting of any committee or subcommittee of any local authority, or in relation to inspection of the minutes of any such meeting, shall be read subject to the provisions of this Part.

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