This Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) proposes amendments to the Local Government (Community Well-being) Amendment Bill (the Bill).

This SOP proposes amendments to clause 13 of the Bill. That clause amends section 200 of the Local Government Act 2002 (the principal Act) , which imposes limits on a territorial authority’s ability to require development contributions, including where a third party has funded infrastructure. The amendment proposed by the Bill as introduced would facilitate territorial authorities’ entry into funding arrangements with the New Zealand Transport Agency, in certain circumstances, without affecting an authority’s ability to require development contributions. The amendment extends the effect of the clause to also cover funding agreements entered into by council-controlled organisations (for example, Auckland Transport).

This SOP also proposes to insert a new clause 14 that amends Schedule 1AA of the principal Act. That schedule sets out transitional provisions. The amendments made by new clause 14 propose to—

• restructure the schedule into 2 parts; and

• repeal a clause that is no longer required as a result of the changes proposed by the Bill; and

• insert a new clause 15 that sets out certain information that must be reported if a local authority wishes to amend its development contribution policy to recover development contributions in respect of capital expenditure incurred in the period between 8 August 2014 and the date on which the Bill comes into force (being the period during which a narrower interpretation of the term “community infrastructure” would have applied).