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Local Government Act 2002

Regulatory, enforcement, and coercive powers of local authorities - Powers of local authorities to make bylaws - General provisions applying to bylaws made by a local authority

151: General provisions applying to bylaws made under this Act

You could also call this:

“Rules for making local laws about things like permits and fees”

This section applies to bylaws made under the Local Government Act 2002 or the Maritime Transport Act 1994.

You can make a bylaw that says things need to be done in a certain way or by a certain time. The local authority or someone mentioned in the bylaw can decide these details.

A bylaw can let the local authority make decisions about regulating, controlling, or prohibiting things. They can make these decisions for all cases, for specific types of cases, or for individual situations.

You can include rules in a bylaw about:

Giving licences to people or for property
Charging fair fees for licences
Getting back money the local authority spent on activities that needed a licence under the bylaw

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Topics:

Government and voting > Local councils

Business > Industry rules

150F: Joint bylaw proposals, or

“Local boards can team up to suggest new rules for their areas”

152: Effect of Building Act 2004 on bylaws, or

“Rules about buildings must follow the Building Act 2004”

Part 8 Regulatory, enforcement, and coercive powers of local authorities
Powers of local authorities to make bylaws: General provisions applying to bylaws made by a local authority

151General provisions applying to bylaws made under this Act

This section applies to a bylaw only if it is made under this Act or the Maritime Transport Act 1994.
A bylaw may require anything to be done in any manner, or within any time, that is required by the local authority or by a person referred to in the bylaw.
A bylaw may leave any matter or thing to be regulated, controlled, or prohibited by the local authority by resolution either generally, for any specified classes of case, or in a particular case.
A bylaw may provide for the following:
the licensing of persons or property:
the payment of reasonable licence fees:
recovery of costs incurred by the local authority in relation to an activity licensed under a bylaw.

Compare

1974 No 66 s 682(a)–(c)

Notes

Section 151 heading: amended, on 28 June 2006, by section 15(1) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 26).
Section 151(1AA): inserted, on 28 June 2006, by section 15(2) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 26).
Section 151(1AA): amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 90 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).