Standing orders.pdf - Hutt City Council
Standing orders.pdf - Hutt City Council
Standing orders.pdf - Hutt City Council
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HCC <strong>Standing</strong> Orders 3 August 2004 Issue No. 2 19<br />
Public notification of<br />
resolutions at<br />
Extraordinary Meetings<br />
13.4<br />
(1) A local authority must, as soon as practicable, publicly notify any<br />
resolution passed at an extraordinary meeting of the local authority<br />
unless-<br />
(a)<br />
(b)<br />
the resolution was passed at a meeting or part of a meeting from which<br />
the public was excluded; or<br />
the extraordinary meeting was publicly notified at least 5 working days<br />
before the day on which the meeting was held.<br />
(2) For the purposes of this section, resolution means the resolution on the matter<br />
or matters for which the extraordinary meeting was held.<br />
[s. 51A, LGOIMA]<br />
14. PUBLIC AT MEETINGS, ACCESS TO ORDER PAPERS, ETC.<br />
Meetings normally to be<br />
open<br />
14.1<br />
All meetings of the local authority and its committees shall be open to the<br />
public and news media except where otherwise provided by Part VII of<br />
LGOIMA.<br />
[s. 47 & 49, LGOIMA]<br />
Information to be<br />
available to public<br />
14.2<br />
All information provided to members at local authority and committee<br />
meetings shall be available to the public and news media unless any item<br />
included in the agenda refers to any matter to be considered by the local<br />
authority when the meeting is not likely to be open to the public.<br />
[s. 5 & 49, LGOIMA]<br />
Public notification about<br />
meetings<br />
14.3<br />
All meetings scheduled for the following month shall be publicly notified<br />
not more than 14 days and not less than five days before the end of every<br />
month, together with the dates on which and the times and places at which<br />
those meetings are to be held. Where any meeting is to be held on or<br />
after the 21 st day of the month, such meetings may instead be publicly<br />
notified not more than 10 nor less than five working days before the day on<br />
which the meeting is to be held.<br />
[s. 46, LGOIMA]<br />
Public notification about<br />
extraordinary meetings<br />
14.4<br />
Where any extraordinary meeting of a local authority is called and notice<br />
of that meeting cannot be given in the manner required or permitted by<br />
this section, the local authority shall cause that meeting and the general<br />
nature of business to be transacted at that meeting to be publicly notified<br />
or otherwise advertised as soon as practicable before the meeting is to be<br />
held.<br />
[s46(3) LGOIMA]<br />
14.5<br />
Where any extraordinary meeting of a local authority is called pursuant to<br />
a resolution of the local authority, the local authority must cause the