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Local Government Act 2002

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

287: Special consultative procedure

You could also call this:

“How to ask people what they think about a council plan”

The law says that if you need to use a special way of asking people what they think about a plan, this part of the law tells you how to do it.

If a local council started asking people what they think before the new rules came in, it’s okay as long as they did it in a way that’s pretty much the same as the new rules. This is true even if the new rules weren’t in place when they started asking.

The new rules are explained in section 83 of the law. If the council followed these rules closely, even if they weren’t official yet, then what they did is still okay.

This helps make sure that work the council already started doesn’t have to be done all over again just because the rules changed.

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

287Special consultative procedure

  1. This section applies to any requirement under any Act that a local authority use or adopt the special consultative procedure in relation to any plan or proposal.

  2. A special consultative procedure commenced by a local authority under section 716A of the Local Government Act 1974 before the commencement of section 83 must be treated as complying with a requirement referred to in subsection (1) if the consultative procedure followed by the local authority was substantially in accordance with the requirements of section 83, whether or not that section was in force for any part of that procedure.