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Local Government Act 2002

Regulatory, enforcement, and coercive powers of local authorities - Development contributions - Contributions may be required by territorial authorities

199: Basis on which development contributions may be required

You could also call this:

“When and why you might have to pay extra money to the council for building or changing your property”

You might be asked to pay development contributions when you build or change something on your property. This can happen if your project needs new or bigger community facilities. The local council might have to spend money to provide these facilities for you.

The facilities the council might need to provide are:

  • Parks and other outdoor spaces
  • Things like roads, water pipes, and power lines
  • Buildings and services for the community

The council can ask you to help pay for these facilities, even if they’ve already built them before you started your project. They do this because they expect more people to use these facilities in the future.

When the council decides if you need to pay, they look at how your project affects the community. They also think about how your project, along with other projects in the area, might change things over time.

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Part 8 Regulatory, enforcement, and coercive powers of local authorities
Development contributions: Contributions may be required by territorial authorities

199Basis on which development contributions may be required

  1. Development contributions may be required in relation to developments if the effect of the developments is to require new or additional assets or assets of increased capacity and, as a consequence, the territorial authority incurs capital expenditure to provide appropriately for—

  2. reserves:
    1. network infrastructure:
      1. community infrastructure.

        1. This section does not prevent a territorial authority from requiring a development contribution that is to be used to pay, in full or in part, for capital expenditure already incurred by the territorial authority in anticipation of development.

        2. In subsection (1), effect includes the cumulative effects that a development may have in combination with other developments.

        Notes
        • Section 199(2): amended, on , by section 54(1) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).
        • Section 199(3): amended, on , by section 54(2) of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).