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Local Government Act 2002

Planning, decision-making, and accountability - Planning and decision-making - Planning

93A: Use of special consultative procedure in relation to long-term plan

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“Special steps for getting public input on long-term plans”

When you want to adopt or change a long-term plan, you need to use a special process called the special consultative procedure. Instead of giving people a statement of proposal and a summary, you need to make a consultation document. This document needs to be prepared and adopted following the rules in sections 93B to 93G.

When you’re using this special process, any time the rules mention a “statement of proposal”, “the proposal”, or a “summary”, you should think of it as referring to your consultation document instead.

It’s important to remember that you can’t use a draft of your long-term plan as a replacement for the consultation document. You must create a separate consultation document.

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Part 6 Planning, decision-making, and accountability
Planning and decision-making: Planning

93AUse of special consultative procedure in relation to long-term plan

  1. Where the special consultative procedure is used in relation to the adoption or amendment of a long-term plan under section 93—

  2. for the purpose of section 83(1)(a), instead of a statement of proposal and a summary of the information contained in the statement of proposal, a consultation document must be prepared and adopted in accordance with sections 93B to 93G; and
    1. section 83 applies as if references to “the statement of proposal” or “the proposal” or a “summary” were references to the consultation document.

      1. To avoid doubt, a draft long-term plan must not be used as an alternative to the consultation document.

      Notes
      • Section 93A: inserted, on , by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).