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Local Government (Rating) Act 2002

Rating information database and rates records - Rating information database

28B: Local authority must inform owners of rating units and ratepayers for separate rating areas of right to withhold certain information from database

You could also call this:

"Council must tell you that you can keep some personal details private"

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The local authority must tell you, in writing, that you have the right to ask them to keep your name or postal address private in their rating information database. You have this right under section 28C. The local authority must send you this information every year. They can send this notice with other rates information they need to give you. You will get this notice if you own a rating unit or pay rates for a separate rating area that is included in the database.

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Rating information database

28BLocal authority must inform owners of rating units and ratepayers for separate rating areas of right to withhold certain information from database

  1. The local authority—

  2. must, by written notice, inform every owner of a rating unit and ratepayer for a separate rating area included in its rating information database, annually, that he or she has the right under section 28C to request the local authority to withhold his or her name or postal address (or both) from the database; and
    1. may give the written notice in conjunction with any other rates information the local authority is required to provide.

      Notes
      • Sections 28B: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Local Government (Rating) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 66).
      • Section 28B heading: amended, on , by section 15(1) of the Local Government (Rating of Whenua Māori) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 12).
      • Section 28B(a): amended, on , by section 15(2) of the Local Government (Rating of Whenua Māori) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 12).