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Local Government Act 2002

Regulatory, enforcement, and coercive powers of local authorities - Powers of local authorities to make bylaws - Power of regional councils to make bylaws

149: Power of regional councils to make bylaws

You could also call this:

“Regional councils can create special rules for their land and services”

You can make rules, called bylaws, for certain things if you’re a regional council in New Zealand. These rules can be about forests you own or look after, even if they’re not in your region. You can also make rules for parks, reserves, and other land you control. If you do work to stop floods or supply water, you can make rules about that too.

You can create these rules to protect your property and stop people from damaging or misusing it. This includes things the council owns and controls. You can also make rules to protect special places on your land. These might be places that are important for culture, history, fun activities, science, or other reasons that matter to the community.

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Part 8 Regulatory, enforcement, and coercive powers of local authorities
Powers of local authorities to make bylaws: Power of regional councils to make bylaws

149Power of regional councils to make bylaws

  1. A regional council may make bylaws in relation to the following matters:

  2. forests that the regional council owns or controls, whether or not the forest is within the region of the regional council:
    1. parks, reserves, recreation grounds, or other land that the regional council owns or controls:
      1. flood protection and flood control works undertaken by, or on behalf of, the regional council:
        1. water supply works undertaken by, or on behalf of, the regional council.

          1. Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), bylaws may be made in relation to the matters listed in subsection (1) for the purpose of managing, regulating against, or protecting from, damage, misuse, or loss, or for preventing the use of,—

          2. the real and personal property owned or controlled by the regional council; and
            1. sites or places on land of the regional council that have cultural, historical, recreational, scientific, or other community or amenity values.

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