New Zealand Legislation: Acts

13 Responsibility for preparing and approving regional land transport programmes

• (1) Every 3 financial years, each regional council, in the case of every region except the Auckland Region, must—

  • (a) ensure that the relevant regional transport committee prepares, on the regional council’s behalf, a regional land transport programme; and

  • (b) approve the regional land transport programme by a date appointed by the Agency.

  (2) Every 3 financial years, ARTA (in the case of the Auckland Region) must—

  • (a) prepare an Auckland regional land transport programme; and

  • (b) approve the Auckland regional land transport programme by a date appointed by the Agency.

  (3) Before ARTA prepares an Auckland regional land transport programme, ARTA must consult with the Auckland regional transport committee about—

  • (a) ARTA's proposed areas of focus for the programme; and

  • (b) the process ARTA intends to use in preparing the programme.

  (4) A regional council or regional transport committee may—

  • (a) prepare and approve a regional land transport programme at the same time as it prepares and approves a regional land transport strategy; and

  • (b) use a single consultation process that complies with sections 18, 18A, and 78 when preparing its programme and strategy.

  (5) A regional council may publish a regional land transport programme and a regional land transport strategy as a single document.

  Section 13: substituted, on 1 August 2008, by section 16 of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).