Part 6
Planning, decision-making, and accountability
Planning and decision-making:
Decision-making
81Contributions to decision-making processes by Māori
A local authority must—
- establish and maintain processes to provide opportunities
for Māori to contribute to the decision-making processes
of the local authority; and
- consider ways in which it may foster the development of
Māori capacity to contribute to the decision-making
processes of the local authority; and
- provide relevant information to Māori for the purposes of
paragraphs (a) and (b).
A local authority, in exercising its responsibility to make judgments about the manner in which subsection (1) is to be complied with, must have regard to—
- the role of the local authority, as set out in
section 11; and
- such other matters as the local authority considers on
reasonable grounds to be relevant to those
judgments.