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 .]