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Local Government Act 2002

Governance and management of local authorities and community boards - Community boards

49: Establishment of community boards

You could also call this:

“Councils must create a board for each community to represent local people”

A community board is a group that represents a specific community within a larger area. You need to set up a community board for each community that is created. There are three ways a community can be created:

  1. The government can make an official order to create it.
  2. People living in the area can suggest creating a community, and the local council agrees to it.
  3. The local council can decide to create a community when they are reviewing how they represent different areas.

Once a community is created, a board must be set up for it. The board’s name will be “[name of the community] Community Board”. For example, if the community is called Sunshine Valley, the board would be called the “Sunshine Valley Community Board”.

These rules are part of the Local Government Act 2002, which helps organize how local areas in New Zealand are run.

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Part 4 Governance and management of local authorities and community boards
Community boards

49Establishment of community boards

  1. A community board must be established for each community constituted, in accordance with Schedule 6, by—

  2. an Order in Council made under section 25; or
    1. a resolution made by the territorial authority within whose district the community will be situated as a result of a proposal by electors to establish a community; or
      1. a resolution made by the territorial authority within whose district the community will be situated as a result of the territorial authority's review of representation arrangements.

        1. The community board must be described as the [name of community] Community Board.

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        Notes
        • Section 49(1)(a): amended, on , by section 24 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 93).