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Local Government Act 2002

Regulatory, enforcement, and coercive powers of local authorities - Development contributions - Contributions may be required by territorial authorities

199I: Development contribution objection hearings

You could also call this:

“Rules for meetings about disagreements over development charges”

When there’s a hearing about objections to development contributions, you need to know a few things. If you bring a witness to speak at the hearing, you have to pay for their fees and allowances. This means you’re responsible for any costs related to your witness.

Before or during the hearing, the person in charge (called a development contributions commissioner) might ask you or the local council to provide more information. If they ask for this information before the hearing, you must share it with everyone involved in the objection.

Only you (if you’re the one objecting) and the local council have the right to speak at the hearing. However, the commissioners can decide to let other people or groups attend and speak if they think it’s helpful.

There are more rules about these hearings in Part 2 of Schedule 13A. You can look there for more details about how the hearings work.

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Part 8 Regulatory, enforcement, and coercive powers of local authorities
Development contributions: Contributions may be required by territorial authorities

199IDevelopment contribution objection hearings

  1. The applicable fees and allowances for a witness appearing at a development contribution objection hearing must be paid by the party on whose behalf the witness is called.

  2. Before or at the hearing, a development contributions commissioner may request the objector or territorial authority to provide further information.

  3. If information is requested before a hearing under subsection (2), the party required to provide the information must serve copies of it on the other parties to the objection.

  4. Only the territorial authority and the objector have a right to be heard at the hearing of an objection. The commissioners may, at their discretion, invite any other person or organisation to attend and be heard to the extent allowed by the commissioners.

  5. Part 2 of Schedule 13A sets out supplementary provisions that apply in relation to development contribution objection hearings.

Notes
  • Section 199I: inserted, on , by section 55 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).