New Zealand Legislation: Acts

14 Powers of territorial authorities

• Every territorial authority has power to—

  • (a) Take any action any natural person could take under Part 5 of this Act:

  • (b) Act as a management agency under a pest management strategy:

  • (c) Take any action provided for or required by any pest management strategy:

  • (d) If, and only if,—

    • (i) A pest management strategy provides for certain actions to be taken; but does not expressly provide for them to be taken by territorial authorities, territorial authorities of a class or description to which the authority belongs, or the authority; and

    • (ii) The management agency for the strategy agrees with the authority that the authority will take those actions and the agency will meet the authority's costs in doing so,—

    to take those actions:

  • (da) To the extent only that any national pest management strategy provides for—

    • (i) Territorial authorities; or

    • (ii) Territorial authorities of a class or description to which the authority belongs; or

    • (iii) The authority,—

    to make contributions towards the costs of the implementation of that strategy, to make such contributions (from the authority's general funds or from any fund dedicated for the purpose):

  • (db) to set and assess rates under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 for the purpose of making any contributions that the authority is empowered by paragraph (da) to make:

  • (e) Gather information, keep records, undertake research, or do any other similar thing, if doing so is necessary or desirable to enable it to act effectively under this Act:

  • (f) Perform or exercise any function, power, or duty whose performance or exercise is for the time being transferred to it under section 15 of this Act:

  • (g) Perform or exercise any other function, power, or duty conferred on it by this Act.

  Paragraph (d) was substituted, and paras (da) and (db) were inserted, as from 1 July 1994, by section 3 Biosecurity Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 24).

  Paragraph (db) was substituted, as from 1 July 2003, by section 137(1) Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 (2002 No 6). See section 137(2) of that Act as to the savings provision.