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 21<br />
agenda and any associated reports to be made available as soon as is<br />
reasonable in the circumstances.”<br />
[s. 46A, LGOIMA]<br />
Exclusion from reports to<br />
be discussed with public<br />
excluded<br />
14.10<br />
The Chief Executive may exclude from the reports made available, reports<br />
or items from reports that are reasonably expected to be discussed with<br />
the public excluded. These items are to be indicated on each agenda.<br />
[s46A(8) LGOIMA]<br />
Availability of agendas<br />
and reports for meetings<br />
of Community Boards<br />
14.11<br />
Where agendas and associated reports are for meetings of community<br />
boards, it shall be sufficient for the purposes of this section that they be<br />
available for public viewing at the main office of the local authority and<br />
those service delivery centres and public libraries, if any, under the<br />
control of the local authority situated within the community.<br />
[s46A(9) LGOIMA]<br />
Agenda to be made<br />
available to public who<br />
are at meetings<br />
14.12<br />
Additional copies of the agenda and further particulars indicating the<br />
nature of the items to be discussed shall be available at meetings in<br />
sufficient numbers to enable any spare copies to be provided for members<br />
of the public to take away with them on payment of the prescribed amount (if<br />
any).<br />
[s. 49, LGOIMA]<br />
List of committee<br />
members publicly<br />
available<br />
Public entitled to inspect<br />
minutes<br />
14.13<br />
The members of each committee are to be named on the relevant order<br />
paper.<br />
14.14<br />
The public are entitled without charge to inspect, take notes from, or<br />
receive copies of, minutes of any meeting or part of any meeting from which<br />
the public was not excluded.<br />
[s. 51, LGOIMA]<br />
Request for minutes of<br />
meetings in closed session<br />
14.15<br />
The Chief Executive shall consider any request for the minutes of a meeting<br />
or part thereof from which the public was excluded as a request for official<br />
information in terms of LGOIMA.<br />
[s. 51, LGOIMA]<br />
15. REASONS TO EXCLUDE PUBLIC<br />
Lawful reasons to exclude<br />
public<br />
15.1<br />
A local authority may by resolution exclude the public from the whole or any<br />
part of the proceedings of any meeting only on one or more of the<br />
grounds specified in section 48 of the LGOIMA (see Appendix 1.A).<br />
[Part VII, s. 48, LGOIMA]