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Reserves Act 1977

Financial provisions

85A: Minister may authorise certain administering bodies to spend proceeds from certain reserves for other purposes

You could also call this:

"The Minister can allow groups to use reserve money for other purposes."

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The Minister can let certain groups spend money from some reserves on other things. You might be wondering what kind of groups and reserves we are talking about. These groups are in charge of recreation or local purpose reserves and are also territorial authorities or regional councils.

If the Minister says it is okay, these groups can use some or all of the money they get from trees on the reserve. They can use this money for things that they are allowed to spend money on. The Minister, along with the Minister of Local Government, can also tell the group to use the money for a specific purpose, and you can find more information about this in the Local Government Act 2002.

The group has to follow the rules and use the money for things they are allowed to do. The Minister has the power to make decisions about how the money is used. You can learn more about how the Minister makes these decisions by reading about the Local Government Act 2002.

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Part 4Financial provisions

85AMinister may authorise certain administering bodies to spend proceeds from certain reserves for other purposes

  1. Where the administering body of a recreation or local purpose reserve is also a territorial authority or regional council, that administering body may, if the Minister so authorises, apply the whole or part of the revenue derived from trees grown on that reserve for—

  2. any purpose for which that territorial authority or regional council may lawfully apply its funds; or
    1. such specific purpose as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister of Local Government, may direct.

      Notes
      • Section 85A: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Reserves Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 63).
      • Section 85A: amended, on , by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).
      • Section 85A(a): amended, on , by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).