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Biosecurity Act 1993

Pest management - Funding from rates

100T: Regional pest management plan or regional pathway management plan

You could also call this:

"How regional councils pay for plans to control pests and pathways using property rates"

When a regional council decides how to pay for its regional pest management plan or regional pathway management plan, you need to know it must choose how much to fund from a general rate, a targeted rate, or a combination of both. The council sets and assesses these rates under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002. The council must think about how the plan affects the people who own the properties that will be charged the rate.

The council must consider how the people who own the properties will benefit from the plan, and whether the benefits are worth the cost of the rate. It must also think about how the properties and what they are used for might be contributing to the problem the plan is trying to solve. For the regional pest management plan, the council considers how the properties might be contributing to the pest problem. For the regional pathway management plan, the council considers how the properties might be contributing to the risks associated with the pathway.

The council has to make a decision based on these considerations, and it must use rates set under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 to fund the plan. You can find more information about how rates are set and assessed in this Act.

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Part 5Pest management
Funding from rates

100TRegional pest management plan or regional pathway management plan

  1. A regional council must decide the extent to which it should fund the implementation of its regional pest management plan or its regional pathway management plan from a general rate, a targeted rate, or a combination of both, set and assessed under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.

  2. In making the decision, the council must have regard to—

  3. the extent to which the plan relates to the interests of the occupiers of the properties on which the rate would be levied:
    1. the extent to which the occupiers of the properties on which the rate would be levied will obtain direct or indirect benefits from the implementation of the plan:
      1. the collective benefits of the implementation of the plan to the occupiers of the properties on which the rate would be levied compared with the collective costs to them of the rate:
        1. for the regional pest management plan, the extent to which the characteristics of the properties on which the rate would be levied and the uses to which they are put contribute to the presence or prevalence of the pest or pests covered by it:
          1. for the regional pathway management plan, the extent to which the characteristics of the properties on which the rate would be levied and the uses to which they are put contribute to the actual or potential risks associated with the pathway.

            Notes
            • Section 100T: inserted, on , by section 39 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).