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Local Government Act 2002

Council-controlled organisations and council organisations - Council-controlled organisation planning

64A: Shareholders may require additional plans

You could also call this:

“Owners can ask council groups to make special plans and reports”

If you own part of a council-controlled organisation, you can ask the organisation to make extra plans. These plans might include how they will look after their assets, what they plan to do in the long term, or plans about specific topics like how to deal with climate change.

When you ask for a plan, you need to tell the organisation in writing. You must say when you want the plan to be finished, what the plan should talk about, and how long into the future the plan should cover.

You can also ask the organisation to tell you how they’re doing with the plan. You can say when and how often you want them to report back to you.

The people in charge of the organisation (called the board) must make these plans and reports when you ask for them, exactly as you’ve asked.

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Part 5 Council-controlled organisations and council organisations
Council-controlled organisation planning

64AShareholders may require additional plans

  1. The shareholders of a council-controlled organisation may require the organisation to prepare and deliver additional plans, including—

  2. an asset management plan:
    1. a long-term plan:
      1. 1 or more thematic plans (for example, a climate change mitigation plan).

        1. A requirement to provide a plan must be notified to the council-controlled organisation in writing and must specify—

        2. the date by which the plan must be delivered to the shareholders; and
          1. the matters to be addressed in the plan; and
            1. the time period that the plan is to cover.

              1. A requirement to provide a plan may also specify a date or dates by which, or intervals at which, the organisation must report on its progress against the plan.

              2. The board of a council-controlled organisation must deliver plans, and reports against those plans, in accordance with the terms of the requirement.

              Notes
              • Section 64A: inserted, on , by section 23 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 54).