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Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements - Ministerial powers in relation to water services delivery plans - General provisions

36: Recovery of remuneration and expenses from local authority

You could also call this:

"Paying back money to the government for costs of a special helper's pay and expenses"

If you are a territorial authority, you owe money to the Crown for certain costs. You owe the Crown for the costs of appointing a ministerial appointee, including their pay and expenses, if they are appointed to work with you. The Crown can ask you to pay back this money.

If a ministerial appointee is appointed to work with a group of territorial authorities, you owe the Crown your share of the costs. The Crown can recover the money it spends on the ministerial appointee's pay and expenses from you. You can find similar information in the Local Government Act 2002.

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Part 2Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements
Ministerial powers in relation to water services delivery plans: General provisions

36Recovery of remuneration and expenses from local authority

  1. A territorial authority owes as a debt to the Crown—

  2. any remuneration and expenses that the Crown incurs for the appointment of a ministerial appointee (including the payment of remuneration and expenses to the ministerial appointee) if the ministerial appointee is appointed to the authority individually; or
    1. the territorial authority’s share of any remuneration and expenses that the Crown incurs for the appointment of a ministerial appointee (including the payment of remuneration and expenses to the ministerial appointee) if the ministerial appointee is appointed to a group of territorial authorities.

      1. The Crown may recover remuneration and expenses under subsection (1) as a debt to the Crown.

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