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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 5.94

5.94 .         Public can inspect certain local government information

                A person can attend the office of a local government during office hours and, unless it would be contrary to section 5.95, inspect, free of charge, in the form or medium in which it is held by the local government and whether or not it is current at the time of inspection —

            (a)         any code of conduct;

        [(aa)         deleted]

            (ab)         any register of complaints referred to in section 5.121;

            (b)         any register of financial interests;

            (ba)         any register of gifts;

            (c)         any annual report;

            (d)         any annual budget;

            (e)         any list of fees and charges imposed under section 6.16;

            (f)         any plan for the future of the district made in accordance with section 5.56;

            (g)         any proposed local law of which the local government has given local public notice under section 3.12(3);

            (h)         any local law made by the local government in accordance with section 3.12;

                  (i)         any regulations made by the Governor under section 9.60 that operate as if they were local laws of the local government;

            (j)         any text that —

                  (i)         is adopted (whether directly or indirectly) by a local law of the local government or by a regulation that is to operate as if it were a local law of the local government; or

                  (ii)         would be adopted by a proposed local law of which the local government has given local public notice under section 3.12(3);

            (k)         any subsidiary legislation made or adopted by the local government under any written law other than under this Act;

            (l)         any written law having a provision in respect of which the local government has a power or duty to enforce;

            (m)         any rate record;

            (n)         any confirmed minutes of council or committee meetings;

            (o)         any minutes of electors’ meetings;

            (p)         any notice papers and agenda relating to any council or committee meeting and reports and other documents that have been —

                  (i)         tabled at a council or committee meeting; or

                  (ii)         produced by the local government or a committee for presentation at a council or committee meeting and which have been presented at the meeting;

            (q)         any report of a review of a local law prepared under section 3.16(3);

            (r)         any business plan prepared under section 3.59;

            (s)         any register of owners and occupiers under section 4.32(6) and electoral rolls;

        [(t)         deleted]

            (ta)         a report on a supplementary audit prepared under section 7.12AH(1);

            (u)         such other information relating to the local government —

                  (i)         required by a provision of this Act to be available for public inspection; or

                  (ii)         as may be prescribed.

        [Section 5.94 amended: No. 49 of 2004 s. 42(7); No. 1 of 2007 s. 7; No. 5 of 2017 s. 9; No. 16 of 2019 s. 45.]

        [Section 5.94 modified: SL 2020/57 1M .]



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