Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

Miscellaneous provisions

56: Power to amend Schedules 1 and 2 by Order in Council

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"The Governor-General can update lists of local authorities if they change or are abolished."

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If a type of local authority listed in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 is abolished or its name is changed, the Governor-General can make changes to those schedules. You can think of the Governor-General as a person who makes important decisions for New Zealand. The Governor-General makes these changes by Order in Council, which is a type of official decision. An Order in Council is a type of secondary legislation, which you can learn more about in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. This means the Order in Council has to follow certain rules when it is published, so you can find out about the changes that have been made.

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55: Regulations, or

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

57: Consequential amendments to other enactments, or

"Changes to other laws because of this Act"

Part 8Miscellaneous provisions

56Power to amend Schedules 1 and 2 by Order in Council

Where any class of local authority named in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 is abolished, or its name is altered, or any specified local authority named in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 is abolished, or its name is altered, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make such amendments to those schedules as may be necessary to give effect to the abolition or alteration.
An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Compare

1962 No 113 s 2(2)
1975 No 125 s 2(5)
1982 No 156 s 49

Notes

Section 56(2): replaced, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).