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Planning Bill

Key roles - Ministerial intervention - Central government

207: Minister may require local authorities to supply information

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"The Minister can ask councils for information they need about their work."

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The Minister can ask local authorities to give them information. You will be told what information to give if you are a local authority or a core infrastructure operator. The information must be about what you do under this Act, you must have the information, and the Minister must need it. The Minister will ask you for the information in a written notice with a date. You will have to give the Minister the information within 20 working days or a longer time the Minister sets. You cannot charge the Minister for giving them the information. The Minister can ask for information about how you do your job under this Act. You have to give the Minister the information you have that they need. This is part of a proposed new law, which may change how things are done now.

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Ministerial intervention: Central government

207Minister may require local authorities to supply information

  1. The Minister may require the bodies described in subsection (2) to supply the information described in subsection (3).

  2. The bodies are—

  3. a local authority; and
    1. a core infrastructure operator approved as a designating authority.

      1. The information is information to which all the following apply:

      2. it is about the body's exercise of any of its functions, powers, or duties under this Act; and
        1. it is held by the body; and
          1. it may reasonably be required by the Minister.

            1. The Minister must require the information in a notice that—

            2. is in writing; and
              1. is dated.

                1. The body—

                2. must supply the Minister with the information within—
                  1. 20 working days of the date of the notice; or
                    1. a longer time set by the Minister; and
                    2. must not charge the Minister for the supply.