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Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

Land information memoranda - Land information memoranda

44B: Natural hazard information to be included in land information memoranda

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"Land reports must include information about natural hazards like floods and earthquakes"

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When you look at a land information memorandum, it must have information about natural hazards and climate change. This information helps you understand what natural hazards might affect the land, like floods or earthquakes. It also tells you how climate change might make these hazards worse.

You will see information about the hazards that are already affecting the land and those that might affect it in the future. The information will also explain how all these hazards together might impact the land. This is so you can get a clear picture of what might happen to the land.

The information in the land information memorandum must be easy to understand and presented in a certain way, as required by the regulations, which can be found through the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Amendment Act 2023. This helps you make sense of the information about natural hazards and climate change. It is all part of making sure you have the information you need about the land.

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"A land information memorandum is a report about a piece of land that you can ask for, which includes important information like natural hazards and land use."

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Part 6ALand information memoranda
Land information memoranda

44BNatural hazard information to be included in land information memoranda

  1. The purpose of this section is to ensure that land information memoranda contain understandable information about the following in relation to land:

  2. natural hazards:
    1. impacts of climate change that exacerbate natural hazards.

      1. A land information memorandum must include—

      2. information that identifies the following, to the extent that the information is known to the territorial authority:
        1. each natural hazard, and each impact of climate change that exacerbates natural hazards, that affects the land concerned:
          1. each potential natural hazard, and each potential impact of climate change that exacerbates natural hazards, to the extent that the territorial authority is satisfied that there is a reasonable possibility that the hazard or impact may affect the land concerned (whether now or in the future):
            1. the cumulative or combined effects of the hazards and impacts referred to in subparagraphs (i) and (ii) on the land concerned; and
            2. any further information required by the regulations to make the information provided under paragraph (a) more understandable.

              1. The information must be summarised and presented in the land information memorandum in the form required by the regulations (if any).

              Notes
              • Section 44B: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 41).