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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 5.109

5.109 .         Complaint initiated by complaints officer

        (1)         A person who is a complaints officer may make a complaint of a minor breach by —

            (a)         preparing the complaint in the form required under section 5.107(2); and

            (b)         giving the council member about whom the complaint is made a copy of the complaint; and

            (c)         sending —

                  (i)         the complaint; and

                  (ii)         anything the complaints officer has that is relevant to the complaint including, where relevant, details of any 2 or more minor breaches that the council member has previously been found to have committed,

                to the member of the primary standards panel who is appointed under Schedule 5.1 clause 2(a).

        (2)         A complaints officer can make a complaint under this section within 6 months after the breach alleged in the complaint occurred, but not later.

        [Section 5.109 inserted: No. 1 of 2007 s. 11; amended: No. 16 of 2019 s. 54.]



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