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Local Authorities (Members' Interests) Amendment Act 1974

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Disqualifying contracts between local authorities and their members

Member of local authority or committee not to discuss or vote on question in which he has pecuniary interest

Local Authorities (Members’ Interests) Amendment Act 1974

Public Act		1974 No 97
Date of assent		8 November 1974

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Disqualifying contracts between local authorities and their members
3	Member of local authority or committee not to discuss or vote on question in which he has pecuniary interest
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Local Authorities (Members’ Interests) Act 1968

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Local Authorities (Members’ Interests) Amendment Act 1974, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Local Authorities (Members’ Interests) Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Disqualifying contracts between local authorities and their members

(1)

Section 3 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to paragraph (c) of subsection (2) (as substituted by section 3 of the Local Authorities (Members’ Interests) Amendment Act 1971) the word “or”, and by inserting, after paragraph (c), the following paragraph:

“(d)

The member or his spouse is the managing director or general manager (by whatever names they are called) of the company and either of them is a member of a company controlling that company:”.

(2)

Section 3 of the principal Act is hereby further amended—

(a)

By inserting in paragraph (iii) of the proviso to the said subsection (2), after the words “paragraph (c)”, the words “or paragraph (d)”:

(b)

By omitting from the same paragraph the words “either of those paragraphs”, and substituting the words “any of those paragraphs”.

3 Member of local authority or committee not to discuss or vote on question in which he has pecuniary interest

(1)

Section 6 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to paragraph (c) of subsection (2) (as substituted by section 5 of the Local Authorities (Members’ Interests) Amendment Act 1971) the word “or”, and by adding to that subsection the following paragraph:

“(d)

The member or his spouse is the managing director or general manager (by whatever names they are called) of the company having a pecuniary interest in the matter before the governing body of the local authority or, as the case may be, before the committee, and either of them is a member of a company controlling that company.”

(2)

Section 6 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (3), after paragraph (e), the following paragraphs:

“(ea)

The preparation, recommendation, approval, or review of general schemes under the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941 for the preventing or minimising of damage by floods and by erosion; or

“(eb)

The preparation, recommendation, approval, or review of reports as to the effect or likely effect on the environment of any public work or proposed public work within the meaning of the Public Works Act 1928; or”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

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