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Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009

Preliminary provisions

3: Purpose

You could also call this:

"This law sets up and guides the Auckland Council to help Auckland and its people."

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The purpose of this Act is to do several things for you and Auckland. It sets up the Auckland Council as a unitary authority, which means it has its own rules. The Act also explains how the Council's structure and functions are different from other local authorities under the Local Government Act 2002.

You will see the Act helps the Local Government Commission make decisions about the Council. It also sorts out how transport, water, and wastewater services are managed in Auckland. The Act requires the Auckland Council to create a spatial plan for Auckland.

The Act promotes issues that are important to mana whenua groups and mataawaka for Tamaki Makaurau. It also sets out rules for council-controlled organisations, which are groups the Council controls.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

3Purpose

  1. The purpose of this Act is—

  2. to establish the Auckland Council as a unitary authority for Auckland; and
    1. to set out the matters in relation to the Council's structure and functions, duties, and powers that differ from the general provisions applying to local authorities under the Local Government Act 2002 and certain other enactments; and
      1. to provide the Local Government Commission with the necessary functions and powers to determine certain matters in relation to the Council; and
        1. to establish arrangements for the management of transport and water supply and wastewater services for Auckland; and
          1. to require the Auckland Council to adopt a spatial plan for Auckland; and
              1. to establish arrangements to promote issues of significance for mana whenua groups and mataawaka for Tamaki Makaurau; and
                1. to set out requirements relating to substantive council-controlled organisations.

                  Notes
                  • Section 3: substituted, on , by section 6 of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 36).
                  • Section 3(e): inserted, on , by section 6 of the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act 2023 (2023 No 68).
                  • Section 3(e): repealed, on , by section 75 of the Spatial Planning Act 2023 (2023 No 47).