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Local Government (Rating) Act 2002

Lump sum contributions - Invitations to make lump sum contribution

117F: Invitations to make lump sum contribution

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"Asking you to donate a one-time amount to a local project"

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When a local authority wants you to contribute a lump sum to a capital project, they can invite you to do so. They must invite you in writing and give you at least one month to decide if you want to contribute. The invitation must include certain information, as required by section 117G(1). A local authority cannot make the invitation unfair by offering different terms to different people or groups of people. They also cannot invite you to contribute on terms that do not match their funding plan for the project. If you are invited to make a lump sum contribution, the local authority must follow these rules, as outlined in section 117B, to make sure the process is fair.

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Part 4ALump sum contributions
Invitations to make lump sum contribution

117FInvitations to make lump sum contribution

  1. For the purposes of section 117B, a local authority may invite lump sum contributions for a capital project from its ratepayers.

  2. An invitation must—

  3. be in writing; and
    1. be delivered to each eligible ratepayer not less than 1 month before the date specified in the invitation as being the final date for the ratepayer to elect to make a lump sum contribution; and
      1. contain the matters required under section 117G(1).

        1. A local authority must not include any term in an invitation that would have the effect of—

        2. offering different terms to individual eligible ratepayers, a class of eligible ratepayers, or classes of eligible ratepayers; or
          1. inviting lump sum contributions from its eligible ratepayers on terms that are inconsistent with the funding plan for the capital project concerned.

            Notes
            • Section 117F: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Local Government (Rating) Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 28).