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Local Government Act 2002

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261: Circumstances when Order in Council may extend time or validate action taken

You could also call this:

“Rules for getting more time or fixing mistakes in local government tasks”

The Governor-General can make an Order in Council to do one or more of these things:

You can get more time to finish something that the Local Government Act 2002 says you need to do, if you haven’t done it or can’t do it in time.

If you do something after the time the Act says you should have done it, the Order can make it okay.

If you make a small mistake in how you do something the Act requires, the Order can fix that mistake.

The Order can also provide a solution if the Act doesn’t cover a situation well enough.

When an Order like this is made, it becomes secondary legislation. This means it needs to follow the rules in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 about how it should be published.

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261Circumstances when Order in Council may extend time or validate action taken

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, do 1 or more of the following:

  2. extend the time for completing an action, step, or procedure that is required by or under this Act and that is not done or cannot be done by the time required:
    1. validate an action, step, or procedure taken after the time required under or by this Act:
      1. validate an irregularity of form in an action, step, or procedure required by or under this Act:
        1. make provision for a situation for which sufficient provision is not made by or under this Act.

          1. An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

          Notes
          • Section 261(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).