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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 5.50

5.50 .         Payments to employees in addition to contract or award

        (1)         A local government is to prepare a policy in relation to employees whose employment with the local government is finishing, setting out —

            (a)         the circumstances in which the local government will pay an employee an amount in addition to any amount to which the employee is entitled under a contract of employment or award relating to the employee; and

            (b)         the manner of assessment of the additional amount.

        (1a)         A local government must not make any payment of the kind described in subsection (1)(a) unless the local government has adopted a policy prepared under subsection (1).

        (2)         A local government may make a payment —

            (a)         to an employee whose employment with the local government is finishing; and

            (b)         that is more than the additional amount set out in the policy prepared under subsection (1) and adopted by the local government,

                but local public notice is to be given in relation to the payment made.

        (3)         The value of a payment or payments made to a person under this section is not to exceed such amount as is prescribed or provided for by regulations.

        (4)         In this section a reference to a payment to a person includes a reference to the disposition of property in favour of, or the conferral of any other financial benefit on, the person.

        (5)         The CEO must publish the policy prepared under subsection (1) and adopted by the local government on the local government’s official website.

        [Section 5.50 amended: No. 64 of 1998 s. 29; No. 16 of 2019 s. 24.]



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