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Local Government Act 2002

Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional provisions, and savings - Transitional provisions

286: Waste management plan

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“Councils must create a plan for dealing with rubbish if they don't have one already”

If you live in a district where your local council didn’t have a waste management plan when this law came into effect, your council has to make one. They need to do this between the time this law was passed and 30 June 2005. The plan they make must follow the rules set out in section 539 of the Local Government Act 1974. This is to make sure every area in New Zealand has a plan for dealing with waste.

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Part 12 Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional provisions, and savings
Transitional provisions

286Waste management plan

  1. If, at the commencement of this section, a territorial authority does not have in force in respect of its district a waste management plan adopted under section 539 of the Local Government Act 1974, that territorial authority must, in the period beginning with the passing of this Act and ending with the close of 30 June 2005, adopt a waste management plan under that section.