New Zealand Legislation: Bills
Bills are proposed Acts
(1) A regional council must, by resolution, adopt a regional public transport plan if it intends to—
(a) enter into a contract to pay for the supply of public transport services:
(b) impose controls on commercial public transport services:
(c) provide financial assistance to the operators or users of—
(i) a taxi service:
(ii) a shuttle service.
(1A) A regional council may, by resolution at any time, vary or renew a regional public transport plan previously adopted by it.
(2) No person is entitled to require a regional council to implement the provisions of a regional public transport plan, except that an existing commercial service operator may require a regional council to implement any provisions included in a plan under section 12(2).
(3) If a regional land transport strategy is amended, the regional council must take the necessary steps to ensure that the regional public transport plan continues to give effect to the public transport service components of the strategy.
(3) 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.
(4) A regional council (or a territorial authority to whom the responsibility has been 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.
(5) Except in Auckland, a regional council may adopt a regional public transport plan for the first time under this Act at the same time as it approves a regional land transport programme or a regional land transport strategy under the Land Transport Management Act 2003.
(6) ARTA may prepare and adopt a regional public transport plan for the first time under this Act at the same time as it prepares and approves a regional land transport programme under the Land Transport Management Act 2003.
(7) 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 adopted by the regional council that established the regional transport committee applies to the entire area of the territorial authority.