Part 3Alternative requirements and additional powers
Additional powers and exemption
65Ability to consider joint service area
When deciding whether or not to establish, join, or amend a joint WSCCO, a joint arrangement, or a joint local government arrangement under section 137 of the LGA2002, a territorial authority may, despite sections 12(4) and 14(1)(g) of the LGA2002, also consider—
- the impact of the joint WSCCO, the joint arrangement, or the joint local government arrangement on the communities in the joint service area (as well as the impact on the authority’s district); and
- the views of people in communities in the joint service area (as well as the views of people in the authority’s communities); and
- the views of the other territorial authorities who are—
- parties to the joint WSCCO, the joint arrangement, or the joint local government arrangement; or
- considering whether to become parties to the joint WSCCO, the joint arrangement, or the joint local government arrangement.
- parties to the joint WSCCO, the joint arrangement, or the joint local government arrangement; or