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Local Government Act 2002

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259C: Auditor-General must report on disclosures made under certain regulations

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“The big checker reports on special information shared by local councils”

When the government makes rules that say local councils must share certain information in their long-term plans or annual reports, the Auditor-General has a special job to do. The Auditor-General is like a big checker who makes sure everything is correct.

If these rules are made, the Auditor-General needs to look at what each local council has shared. They will check if the council has told everything they were supposed to and if all the information is correct.

After checking, the Auditor-General will write a report about what they found. This report will say whether each council did a good job of sharing all the required information and if it was all accurate. The Auditor-General has to do this as part of their usual reports on councils’ long-term plans and annual reports.

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Part 11 Regulations, other Orders in Council, and rules
Regulations

259CAuditor-General must report on disclosures made under certain regulations

  1. This section applies to the Auditor-General if regulations are made under section 259(1)(dd) that require disclosure of the matters set out in that paragraph in a long-term plan or an annual report.

  2. The Auditor-General must report on the completeness and accuracy of the disclosures made by each local authority in the report required from him or her under section 94(1) or 99(1), as the case may be.

Notes
  • Section 259C: inserted, on , by section 33 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 93).
  • Section 259C(2): amended, on , by section 75 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).