New Zealand Legislation: Bills

11 Notification and provision of copies of plans

• (1) If a regional council adopts or varies a regional public transport plan, the regional council must—

  • (a) ensure that notice is given, as soon as practicable, in the relevant regional newspaper of the adoption or variation of the plan and its availability for inspection and purchase; and

  • (b) give, as soon as practicable, to the operator of every existing registered commercial public transport service in the region and to every person who has notified the regional council of a proposal to operate a commercial public transport service in the region—

    • (i) written notice of the adoption, and a copy, of the plan (or variation); and

    • (ii) if the plan states under section 12 a process for determining the transitional arrangements that the regional council will adopt, written notice of the adoption, and a copy, of those arrangements once they have been adopted; and

  • (c) within 20 working days of adopting a regional public transport plan or a variation to a regional public transport plan,—

    • (i) forward a copy of the regional public transport plan or the variation to each of the following:

      • (A) the Agency:

      • (B) the Secretary:

      • (C) the Minister of Education:

      • (D) territorial authorities in the region:

      • (E) the relevant regional transport committee:

      • (F) in the case of a plan or a variation of a plan adopted by ARTA, the Auckland Regional Council; and

    • (ii) ensure that—

      • (A) copies of the plan or varied plan are kept at the regional council’s principal office and such other places that the regional council appoints and made available for public inspection, free of charge, and for purchase at a reasonable price; and

      • (B) a copy of the plan or varied plan is made available on the regional council’s Internet site.

  (2) A regional council (except ARTA) may publish a regional public transport plan, a regional land transport programme and a regional land transport strategy as a single document.

  (3) ARTA may publish a regional public transport plan and a regional land transport programme as a single document.