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Local Government Act 2002

Council-controlled organisations and council organisations - Monitoring and reporting

65: Performance monitoring

You could also call this:

“Checking how well council-owned groups are doing their job”

If you own part of a council organisation, you need to check how well it’s doing regularly. You do this to see if it’s helping achieve what you want it to. You’ll look at three things: your goals for the organisation, the results it said it would achieve, and your overall aims as a local authority.

When a council-controlled organisation gives you its statement of intent, you need to do something quickly. You can either agree to it or try to change it. If you want to change it, you need to take all the steps you can to make the organisation modify the statement. These steps are described in clause 6 of Schedule 8.

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Part 5 Council-controlled organisations and council organisations
Monitoring and reporting

65Performance monitoring

  1. A local authority that is a shareholder in a council organisation must regularly undertake performance monitoring of that organisation to evaluate its contribution to the achievement of—

  2. the local authority's objectives for the organisation; and
    1. (if applicable) the desired results, as set out in the organisation's statement of intent; and
      1. the overall aims and outcomes of the local authority.

        1. A local authority must, as soon as practicable after a statement of intent of a council-controlled organisation is delivered to it,—

        2. agree to the statement of intent; or
          1. if it does not agree, take all practicable steps under clause 6 of Schedule 8 to require the statement of intent to be modified.

            Notes
            • Section 65(1)(b): amended, on , by section 5(1) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 63).
            • Section 65(2): amended, on , by section 5(2) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 63).
            • Section 65(2)(a): amended, on , by section 5(3) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 63).