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Local Government Act 2002

Governance and management of local authorities and community boards - Register of members’ pecuniary interests

54G: Registrar

You could also call this:

“The Registrar keeps track of council members' money matters and helps them follow the rules”

You need to appoint someone called a Registrar in your local authority. This person has two main jobs. First, they need to create and keep up to date a list of all the financial interests that members of the local authority have. Second, they need to help members understand what they need to do to follow the rules about their financial interests.

The person in charge of the local authority, called the chief executive, can be the Registrar if they want to be. But it doesn’t have to be them - it can be someone else in the local authority too.

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Part 4 Governance and management of local authorities and community boards
Register of members’ pecuniary interests

54GRegistrar

  1. A local authority must appoint a Registrar to—

  2. compile and maintain the register of members’ pecuniary interests; and
    1. provide advice and guidance to members in connection with their obligations under this subpart.

      1. The chief executive of a local authority may be the Registrar under subsection (1).

      Notes
      • Section 54G: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Local Government (Pecuniary Interests Register) Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 24).