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Local Government Act 2002

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

93D: Content of consultation document for amendment of long-term plan

You could also call this:

“What to include when asking people about changes to the long-term plan”

When you want to change your long-term plan, you need to create a document to talk to your community about it. This document should help people understand the changes you want to make.

The document needs to include:

  1. A description of what you want to change
  2. Why you want to make these changes
  3. What will happen if you make these changes, including how it might affect money
  4. Other ideas you might want to talk about with your community instead of the changes

You can add a full copy of the proposed changes to your document if you think it will help people understand better. If you don’t add the full copy, you need to tell people where they can find it.

The document must also have a report from the Auditor-General. This report will say if your document does a good job of explaining the changes and if the information in it is good. The Auditor-General won’t say if they think the changes are good or bad.

Remember, the most important thing is to make sure your document helps people understand the changes you want to make to your long-term plan.

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Planning and decision-making: Planning

93DContent of consultation document for amendment of long-term plan

  1. The content of the consultation document for the amendment of a long-term plan must be such as the local authority considers on reasonable grounds will achieve the purpose set out in section 93B.

  2. Without limiting subsection (1), the consultation document for an amendment to the long-term plan must include—

  3. a description of the proposed amendment:
    1. the reasons for the proposed amendment:
      1. the implications (including financial implications) of the proposed amendment:
        1. any alternatives to the proposed amendment that the local authority may wish to discuss with its communities.

          1. The consultation document—

          2. may have attached to it a copy of the proposed amendment to the long-term plan, if the local authority considers that the full copy of that proposed amendment will assist people to understand the amendment; but
            1. in any other case, must state where a copy of the proposed amendment to the long-term plan may be obtained.

              1. The consultation document must contain a report from the Auditor-General on—

              2. whether the consultation document gives effect to the purpose set out in section 93B; and
                1. the quality of the information and assumptions underlying the information provided in the consultation document.

                  1. The report under subsection (4) must not comment on the merits of any policy content of the consultation document.

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