New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

18 Consultation on how levy money to be spent

• (1) At least every 12 months, the Council must consult growers on how levy money is proposed to be spent and provide details as to the previous 12 months’ expenditure.

  (2) For the purposes of subclause (1), the Council must—

  • (a) communicate with growers by means of—

    • (i) regular newsletters to growers whose postal address the Council has; and

    • (ii) advertisement in the New Zealand Wine Grower; and

    • (iii) the technical symposium at the Romeo Bragato Conference; and

    • (iv) any other manner the Council thinks fit; and

  • (b) invite requests for annual research and other expenditure priorities; and

  • (c) invite and provide for grower representation on the committee allocating research funding in accordance with the Council’s constitution and rules; and

  • (d) before the Council’s annual general meeting in each year, hold advertised meetings in grape-growing regions for the purpose of consulting growers on how levy money is to be spent; and

  • (e) send to growers, whose postal address it has, written invitations to attend the Council’s annual general meeting; and

  • (f) circulate before the Council’s annual general meeting a draft budget and plan for the spending of levy money in the next year; and

  • (g) present the final proposed expenditure for approval at the Council’s annual general meeting.