Part 4Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement
Territorial authorities: Monitoring performance of functions and duties, and exercise of powers, by territorial authorities
184Powers of chief executive for monitoring performance of functions and duties and exercise of powers
The chief executive may—
- monitor the performance of functions and duties and the exercise of powers by territorial authorities under this Act; and
- request a report from a territorial authority in relation to the carrying out of its role specified in sections 19 and 173.
For the purposes of this section, the chief executive—
- must have full access at all reasonable times to—
- all relevant information that is in the possession or control of a territorial authority; and
- any place where that information is kept:
- all relevant information that is in the possession or control of a territorial authority; and
- may impose any requirements on a territorial authority as to the form and content of reports and the frequency of reporting:
- may require a territorial authority to—
- supply any relevant information; or
- answer any question that relates to its performance of functions and duties and the exercise of its powers under this Act:
- supply any relevant information; or
- may, by written notice, require a person with possession or control of any relevant information to supply to the chief executive, in a manner specified in the notice, all or any of that information.
Subsection (2) does not limit any Act that imposes a prohibition or restriction on the availability of any information.
In this section, relevant information—
- means any information of any description that relates to the performance by a territorial authority of its functions and duties, and the exercise of its powers, under this Act; and
- includes information that is kept in any form (whether in electronic form or otherwise).