Local Government Act 2002

Specific obligations and restrictions on local authorities and other persons - Restrictions on disposal of parks, reserves, and endowment properties - Endowment property

141: Conditions applying to sale or exchange of endowment property

You could also call this:

“Rules for selling or trading special property given to local councils”

You can’t sell or exchange endowment property unless you follow these rules:

The way you plan to use the money from selling the property, or the new property you get in exchange, must match the original purpose of the endowment.

If the Crown gave you the property, you need to tell the Minister for Land Information and the Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations that you want to sell or exchange it.

For other cases, you need to try your best to let the person who gave you the property (or their successor) know that you want to sell or exchange it. You also need to give them a fair chance to share their thoughts on your plan.

Just because you tell the Ministers about your plan to sell or exchange the property doesn’t mean they have to do anything about it.

If your local authority is being reorganised, the money from selling or exchanging the property must be used in the new district or districts that your local authority becomes part of.

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Part 7 Specific obligations and restrictions on local authorities and other persons
Restrictions on disposal of parks, reserves, and endowment properties: Endowment property

141Conditions applying to sale or exchange of endowment property

  1. A local authority must not exercise the power in section 140(4)(b) unless—

  2. the proposed use of the proceeds of sale of the property, or of the property received in exchange, is consistent with the purpose of the endowment; and
      1. in a case where the Crown was the donor of the property, the local authority has notified the Minister for Land Information and the Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations of the local authority's proposal to sell or exchange the endowment land; and
        1. in other cases, the local authority has—
          1. made a reasonable attempt to notify the donor of the property, or his or her successor, as the case may be, that the local authority intends to sell or exchange the property; and
            1. provided the donor with a reasonable opportunity to comment on the intended sale or exchange.
            2. To avoid doubt, notification of a proposal to sell or exchange a property under subsection (1)(c) does not oblige a Minister to take any action in relation to the proposal to sell or exchange the property.

            3. If the local authority is subject to reorganisation, the proceeds of a sale or exchange of property must be applied to the district or districts of the new local authority or authorities arising from the reorganisation of which the local authority formed part.

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            Notes
            • Section 141(1)(b): repealed, on , by section 34 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 124).