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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 8.23

8.23 .         Copies to be given to local government and suspended council members, and made available to public

        (1)         If the Minister receives a report from an Inquiry Panel under section 8.22(3), the Minister is to give a copy of the report to —

            (a)         the local government concerned; and

            (b)         if the council of the local government is suspended — each council member; and

            (c)         if a council member is suspended — that member.

        (2)         After subsection (1) has been complied with, the Minister is to make the report of an Inquiry Panel available to the public in any manner that the Minister thinks fit.

        (3)         Despite subsections (1) and (2), the Minister may withhold a report, or its contents, to the extent that the Inquiry Panel has indicated that it considers that making it available might prejudice a matter that is likely to come before a court of law or to be the subject of an allegation to the State Administrative Tribunal.

        (4)         Within 35 days after receiving the report or such longer period as the Minister allows, the local government is to give the Minister written advice setting out —

            (a)         the things that it has done or proposes to do to give effect to the recommendations in the report; or

            (b)         if the report recommends that the council be dismissed, its comments on that recommendation.

        (5)         A council member who is suspended, or who is a member of a council that is suspended, may, within 35 days after receiving the report or such longer period as the Minister allows, give the Minister written advice setting out the member’s comments on the recommendations in the report.

        [Section 8.23 amended: No. 64 of 1998 s. 47; No. 31 of 2018 s. 18.]



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