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Local Government Act 2002

Governance and management of local authorities and community boards - Local boards

48B: Interpretation

You could also call this:

“What 'local activities' means in this law”

In this part of the law, you need to understand what ‘local activities’ means. Local activities are the things that a unitary authority does that don’t involve making rules. A local board gets to make decisions about these activities.

Local activities include:

  1. Providing services to the community.
  2. Setting up and running facilities for people to use.
  3. Giving money and other kinds of support to groups and organisations in the area.

These are the main things that count as local activities in this law. When you see ‘local activities’ mentioned in other parts of this law, it refers to these kinds of tasks that local boards can decide on.

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48BInterpretation

  1. In this subpart, local activities means the non-regulatory activities of the unitary authority in respect of which a local board is allocated decision-making responsibility under section 48L, including—

  2. providing services; and
    1. providing and operating facilities; and
      1. providing funding and other support to groups and organisations.

        Notes
        • Section 48B: inserted, on , by section 17 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).