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Local Government Act 2002

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

95: Annual plan

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“A yearly plan that shows the council's budget and activities for the coming year”

You need to prepare and adopt an annual plan for each financial year. This plan must be ready before the year it covers begins. You should talk to people about the plan before you adopt it, but you don’t have to if the plan is very similar to what you said you would do in your long-term plan.

The annual plan is important because it shows your budget for the year, explains any changes from your long-term plan, helps you make decisions about using your resources, and helps you be responsible to your community.

Your annual plan needs to follow the same rules as your long-term plan’s financial statements. It should refer to your long-term plan and include specific information required by Part 2 of Schedule 10. You can refer to your long-term plan instead of repeating information.

After you adopt your annual plan, you must make it available for people to see within one month.

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

95Annual plan

  1. A local authority must prepare and adopt an annual plan for each financial year.

  2. Subject to subsection (2A), a local authority must consult in a manner that gives effect to the requirements of section 82 before adopting an annual plan under this section.

  3. Subsection (2) does not apply if the proposed annual plan does not include significant or material differences from the content of the long-term plan for the financial year to which the proposed annual plan relates.

  4. An annual plan must be adopted before the commencement of the year to which it relates.

  5. Despite subsection (1), for the first year to which a long-term plan under section 93 relates, the financial statement and funding impact statement included in that long-term plan in relation to that year must be regarded as the annual plan adopted by the local authority for that year.

  6. The purpose of an annual plan is to—

  7. contain the proposed annual budget and funding impact statement for the year to which the annual plan relates; and
    1. identify any variation from the financial statements and funding impact statement included in the local authority's long-term plan in respect of the year; and
      1. provide integrated decision making and co-ordination of the resources of the local authority; and
        1. contribute to the accountability of the local authority to the community.

            1. Each annual plan adopted under this section must—

            2. be prepared in accordance with the principles and procedures that apply to the preparation of the financial statements and funding impact statement included in the long-term plan; and
              1. contain appropriate references to the long-term plan in which the local authority's activities for the financial year covered by the annual plan are set out; and
                1. include the information required by Part 2 of Schedule 10.

                  1. Except where subsection (5) requires otherwise, the local authority must comply with subsection (6)(b) and (c) by means of reference to, rather than duplication of, the long-term plan.

                  2. A local authority must, within 1 month after the adoption of its annual plan, make the plan publicly available.

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                  Notes
                  • Section 95(2): replaced, on , by section 33(1) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
                  • Section 95(2A): inserted, on , by section 33(1) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
                  • Section 95(4): amended, on , by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
                  • Section 95(5)(b): amended, on , by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
                  • Section 95(5)(c): replaced, on , by section 33(2) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
                  • Section 95(5)(d): amended, on , by section 33(3) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
                  • Section 95(5)(e): repealed, on , by section 33(4) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
                  • Section 95(6)(a): amended, on , by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
                  • Section 95(6)(b): amended, on , by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).
                  • Section 95(6A): inserted, on , by section 33(5) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
                  • Section 95(7): replaced, on , by section 18 of the Local Government Regulatory Systems Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 6).