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Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009

Transport management for Auckland - Functions, powers, etc, of Auckland Transport

45: Functions of Auckland Transport

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"Auckland Transport's main jobs are to plan, manage, and control Auckland's transport system."

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Auckland Transport has several jobs to do. You can think of these jobs as its main functions. Auckland Transport must prepare a regional land transport plan for Auckland, following the rules set out in the Land Transport Management Act 2003.

Auckland Transport also manages and controls the Auckland transport system. This includes doing jobs and using powers that are listed in section 46, and acting as a requiring authority under section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, as set out in section 47.

Auckland Transport does other jobs too, like researching and teaching people about land transport in Auckland. It can also do other transport jobs that the Auckland Council tells it to do, or that other laws say it must do. This includes managing some things that the Council owns, like off-street parking. Auckland Transport can even do jobs related to State highways if the New Zealand Transport Agency or the Director of Land Transport asks it to. It can do any other jobs that this Act or other laws give it, as long as they are related to its main functions.

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Part 4Transport management for Auckland
Functions, powers, etc, of Auckland Transport

45Functions of Auckland Transport

  1. The functions of Auckland Transport are to—

  2. prepare the regional land transport plan for Auckland in accordance with the Land Transport Management Act 2003; and
    1. manage and control the Auckland transport system in accordance with this Act, including by—
      1. performing the statutory functions and exercising the statutory powers set out in section 46 as if Auckland Transport were a local authority or other statutory body, as the case may be; and
        1. acting as a requiring authority under section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991 in accordance with section 47; and
        2. carry out research and provide education and training in relation to land transport in Auckland; and
          1. undertake any other transport functions that the Auckland Council may lawfully direct it to perform or delegate to it (for example, management of off-street parking facilities owned by the Council); and
            1. without limiting paragraph (d), undertake any transport functions expressly conferred on the Auckland Council by any enactment (for example, under a local Act) that the Council may lawfully direct it to perform or delegate to it; and
              1. undertake or exercise any functions, powers, and duties in respect of State highways that the New Zealand Transport Agency or the Director of Land Transport may lawfully delegate to it; and
                1. undertake any other functions that are given to it by this Act or any other enactment, or that are incidental and related to, or consequential upon, any of its functions under this Act or any other enactment.

                  Notes
                  • Section 45: added, on , by section 31 of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 36).
                  • Section 45(a): amended, on , by section 72 of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 35).
                  • Section 45(b)(ii): amended, 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 45(f): amended, on , by section 175(1) of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).