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Reserves Act 1977

Financial provisions

89: Contributions and advances by local authorities

You could also call this:

"Local councils can help pay for reserve management and conservation"

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If you are part of a local authority, you can use some of your money to help manage a reserve. This can happen if your local authority is in charge of the reserve, or if one of your members is on the team that looks after it, or if people in your area use the reserve a lot. You can decide how much money to give and what conditions to attach to it.

You can also use your money to help the government buy land for conservation purposes, or to pay for a conservation covenant. This can happen even if the land is not in your local area.

You do not need any extra permission to make these arrangements or to give this money.

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Part 4Financial provisions

89Contributions and advances by local authorities

  1. Where—

  2. any local authority is the administering body of any reserve; or
    1. any member of a local authority is by virtue of his or her office a member of the administering body of any reserve; or
      1. any reserve is generally used by the inhabitants of the district of a local authority,—
          1. the local authority may from time to time apply money in its general fund or account, or make advances from that fund or account to the administering body of the reserve upon such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, towards the management, improvement, maintenance, and protection of that reserve or any other reserve, notwithstanding that the reserve may be situate outside the district of the local authority, and neither the local authority nor the administering body shall require further authority to enter into any such arrangement.

        1. Any local authority may from time to time out of its general fund or account contribute such sums as it thinks fit towards the cost of the acquisition by the Crown of any land or interest in land for the purposes of this Act, or in payment for the consideration for any conservation covenant, notwithstanding that the land may be situate outside the district of the local authority.

        Compare
        • 1953 No 69 s 79
        • 1968 No 126 s 5