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Local Government Act 2002

Planning, decision-making, and accountability - Planning and decision-making - Planning

94: Audit of long-term plan

You could also call this:

“Someone checks if the long-term plan for the local council is done properly”

The long-term plan must have a report from the Auditor-General. This report needs to say two things:

  1. If the plan does what it’s supposed to do, as explained in section 93(6).

  2. How good the information and assumptions are that the plan uses to make predictions.

If the long-term plan is changed, the Auditor-General needs to either confirm their original report or make a new one.

The Auditor-General’s report is not allowed to say whether the ideas in the plan are good or bad. It just looks at how the plan is made and what information it uses.

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Part 6 Planning, decision-making, and accountability
Planning and decision-making: Planning

94Audit of long-term plan

  1. The long-term plan must contain a report from the Auditor-General on—

  2. whether the plan gives effect to the purpose set out in section 93(6); and
    1. the quality of the information and assumptions underlying the forecast information provided in the plan.

        1. In the case of an amended long-term plan, the report under subsection (1) must contain a report by the Auditor-General confirming or amending the report made when the long-term plan was adopted.

        2. A report under subsection (1) must not comment on the merits of any policy content of the plan.

        Notes
        • Section 94 heading: amended, on , by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
        • Section 94(1): amended, on , by section 27(1) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 93).
        • Section 94(1): amended, on , by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
        • Section 94(1)(a): replaced, on , by section 32(1) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
        • Section 94(1)(b): amended, on , by section 14(1) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
        • Section 94(1)(c): repealed, on , by section 14(2) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
        • Section 94(2): replaced, on , by section 32(2) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
        • Section 94(3): amended, on , by section 32(3) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).