New Zealand Legislation: Bills

15 Consultation requirements

• (1) Before adopting a regional public transport plan, a regional council must consult—

  • (a) the relevant regional land transport committee; and

  • (b) Transit; and

  • (c) the Authority; and

  • (d) the Commissioner; and

  • (e) the Minister of Education; and

  • (f) the territorial authorities in the region; and

  • (g) the adjoining regional councils and territorial authorities; and

  • (h) public transport users and providers; and

  • (i) the public in the region; and

  • (j) the district health boards in the region; and

  • (k) every affected approved public organisation in the region; and

  • (l) affected communities; and

  • (m) Māori of the region; and

  • (n) the Accident Compensation Corporation; and

  • (o) groups that represent the interests of the transport disadvantaged; and

  • (p) the New Zealand Railways Corporation.

  (2) In carrying out the consultation required by subsection (1), a regional council must use the special consultative procedure specified in sections 83, 87, and 89 of the Local Government Act 2002, which applies for the purposes of this section with the necessary modifications.

  (3) If withholding any information provided in any written submission is necessary under section 7 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 because of the information’s commercial sensitivity, the regional council must not, without the consent of the person who provided the information, make the information available to any person other than—

  • (a) the regional council, its professional advisers, and those persons or organisations that the regional council has engaged to carry out public transport planning and monitoring; or

  • (b) the Authority, in accordance with section 18.

  (4) A regional council that is preparing a regional public transport plan may request any information from any territorial authority within its region that the council considers necessary to perform its functions under this Act in relation to that plan, and the territorial authority must promptly comply with that request.

  (5) For the purposes of this section, Part 7 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 applies to ARTA as if it were a local authority.