New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) Subject to section 66(1) and (2), a regional council must, by resolution, adopt a regional public transport plan unless it does not intend to—
(a) enter into any contract for the supply of any public transport service:
(b) impose any controls on commercial public transport services:
(c) impose any contracting requirement:
(d) provide any financial assistance to any operator or user of—
(i) a taxi service:
(ii) a shuttle service.
(2) A regional council may, by resolution at any time, vary or renew a regional public transport plan previously adopted by it.
(3) No person is entitled to require a regional council to implement a regional public transport plan, except that an existing commercial service operator may require a regional council to implement any transitional arrangements included in a plan under this Act or determined pursuant to any section of this Act.
(4) The production in proceedings of a copy of a regional public transport plan purporting to have been adopted, varied, or renewed by a regional council under this section is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, sufficient evidence of the plan and of the fact that it has been adopted, varied, or renewed in accordance with this section.
(5) A regional council (or a territorial authority to which the responsibility is transferred under the Local Government Act 2002) may not delegate the responsibility for adopting, varying, or renewing a regional public transport plan to a committee or other subordinate decision-making body, or a member or an officer of the council (or territorial authority, as the case may be), or any other person.
(6) If a territorial authority (other than a territorial authority in the Auckland region) has joined a regional transport committee under section 105(11) of the Land Transport Management Act 2003, the plan applying in the region of the regional transport committee applies to the entire area of the territorial authority.