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Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

Land information memoranda - Land information memoranda

44C: Regional council must provide territorial authority with natural hazard information

You could also call this:

"Regional councils must share information about natural hazards with local councils to keep you safe."

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When you need to know about natural hazards in your area, the regional council must give the territorial authority information about them. This information includes what natural hazards affect the land, like floods or earthquakes, and how climate change might make these hazards worse. The regional council must also tell the territorial authority about potential natural hazards that might affect the land in the future.

The regional council must provide this information as soon as they can, and it must include details about how all these hazards might combine to affect the land. They must also give any extra information that is required by the regulations to help make the information clearer.

The information must be summarised and presented in a specific format, as required by the regulations, to make it easier to understand, and this is according to the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.

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Land information memoranda

44CRegional council must provide territorial authority with natural hazard information

  1. A regional council must, as soon as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances, provide to a territorial authority within or partly within its region—

  2. information that identifies the following, to the extent that the information is known to the regional council:
    1. each natural hazard, and each impact of climate change that exacerbates natural hazards, that affects land in the territorial authority’s district:
      1. each potential natural hazard, and each potential impact of climate change that exacerbates natural hazards, to the extent that the regional council is satisfied that there is a reasonable possibility that the hazard or impact may affect land in the territorial authority’s district (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 land in the territorial authority’s district; 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 form required by the regulations (if any).

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