Land Transport Management Act 2003

16 Form and content of regional land transport programmes (for regions other than Auckland)

• (1) For the purpose of seeking payment from the national land transport fund, a regional land transport programme (for regions other than Auckland) must contain, for the 3 financial years to which the programme relates,—

  • (a) activities or combinations of activities, identified by approved organisations in the region, relating to local road maintenance, local road renewals and local road minor capital works, and existing public transport services; and

  • (b) the following activities or combinations of activities that the regional transport committee decides to include in the regional land transport programme:

    • (i) activities or combinations of activities proposed by approved organisations in the region, other than those identified under paragraph (a); and

    • (ii) activities or combinations of activities relating to State highways in the region that are proposed by the Agency; and

    • (iii) activities or combinations of activities, other than those relating to State highways, that the Agency may propose for the region and that the Agency wishes to see included in the regional land transport programme; and

  • (c) the order of priority, as determined by the regional transport committee, of the activities or combinations of activities that the committee decides to include in the committee's regional land transport programme under paragraph (b); and

  • (d) an assessment of each activity or combination of activities, prepared in accordance with subsection (5) by the organisation that identified or proposed the activity or combination of activities under paragraph (a) or (b), to include—

    • (i) the objective or objectives to be achieved; and

    • (ii) an estimate of the total cost and the cost for each year; and

    • (iii) the expected duration; and

    • (iv) any proposed sources of funding other than the national land transport fund (including, but not limited to, tolls, regional fuel taxes, funding from approved organisations, and contributions from other parties); and

    • (v) any other relevant information.

  (2) A regional land transport programme must contain assessments by the regional transport committee of—

  • (a) how the programme complies with section 14; and

  • (b) the relationship of Police activities or combinations of Police activities to the regional land transport programme.

  (3) A regional land transport programme must also include—

  • (a) a statement of transport priorities for the region for the 6 financial years from the start of the programme, for which funding will be sought from the national land transport fund; and

  • (b) all significant expenditure on land transport activities to be funded from sources other than the national land transport fund; and

  • (c) a list of each activity or combination of activities that have been approved under section 20 but are not yet completed; and

  • (d) an identification of those activities or combinations of activities (if any) that have inter-regional significance; and

  • (e) an explanation of the proposed action if it is proposed that an activity or combination of activities be varied, suspended, or abandoned; and

  • (f) an indication of any nationally or regionally significant activities that are likely to be recommended for inclusion in the national land transport programme over the 3 financial years following the regional land transport programme; and

  • (g) a financial forecast of anticipated revenue and expenditure on activities for the 10 financial years from the start of the regional land transport programme; and

  • (h) a description of how monitoring will be undertaken to assess implementation of the regional land transport programme; and

  • (i) a summary of the consultation carried out in the preparation of the regional land transport programme; and

  • (j) a summary of the policy relating to significance adopted by the regional transport committee under section 106; and

  • (k) any other relevant matters.

  (4) For the purpose of the inclusion of activities or combinations of activities in a national land transport programme, a regional land transport programme must be in the form and contain the detail that the Agency may prescribe in writing to regional transport committees.

  (5) The assessment under subsection (1)(d) must be in a form and contain the detail required by the regional transport committee, taking account of any prescription made by the Agency under subsection (4).

  (6) For the purposes of this section, existing public transport services means the level of public transport services in place in the financial year before the commencement of the regional land transport programme, and any minor changes to those services.

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

  Section 16 heading: amended, on 1 November 2010, by section 113(1) of the Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Act 2010 (2010 No 37).

  Section 16(1): amended, on 1 November 2010, by section 113(1) of the Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Act 2010 (2010 No 37).