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Local Government Policy
The Local Government Policy Team is a part of the Local Government and Community Branch. On this page you can find information about:
- What is Local Government?
- Department of Internal Affairs' Roles in Local Government
- Further information
Latest Information
Auckland Governance:
What is Local Government?Few of the issues which government deal with are neatly contained within national boundaries. Some are global, a few are national, and many others are local. Either they affect only particular localities or they affect different localities differently, or the populations of different localities might legitimately have differing views on what ought to be done or how it should be done. All modern democracies divide the work of government between central government and some form of local, regional, or state government.
In New Zealand, there is central government and local government (involving both regional and territorial authorities).
Local Authorities
The following information brochures were published by the Local Government and Community Branch in July 2006:
Department of Internal Affairs' Roles in Local GovernmentSecretary for Local Government
Section 2B of the Local Government Act 1974 provides that the person for the time being holding the office of Secretary for Internal Affairs shall be the Secretary for Local Government. The Seventeenth Schedule to the Act lists several Acts under which functions, powers and duties are conferred or imposed on the Minister of Local Government and the Secretary for Local Government.
Note: The Local Government Act 2002 was given royal assent on 24 December 2002. It repeals the Local Government Act 1974.
Local Government Policy Team
Policy advice on Local Government is provided to the Minister of Local Government and other ministers by a team within the Local Government and Community Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. The team:
- provides policy advice on local government to the Minister of Local Government and also to the Local Government and Environment Select Committee on local Bills
- administers Acts and Regulations on behalf of the Minister of Local Government.
Local Government Services Team
This team is part of the Regulation and Compliance Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. The team:
Further InformationMore information about the Local Government portfolio and its issues:
- Improving Local Government Transparency, Accountability and Fiscal Management - Cabinet Paper (April 2009)
- Briefing for the Incoming Minister of Local Government. For a hard copy version please email: info@dia.govt.nz.
- Evaluating the Central-Local Government Interface in the Community Outcomes Process - Report evaluating the Department of Internal Affairs’ facilitation of the Central / Local Government Interface in the Community Outcomes Process (April 2007).
- Local Government Funding Project - Background information about the Local Government Funding Project, including a link to the July 2005 and December 2006 reports on Local Authority Funding Issues.
- Commonwealth Local Government Conference 2007 - The New Zealand Government is hosting the fourth Commonwealth Local Government Conference in Auckland, 26 – 29 March 2007.
- Policy development guidelines for regulatory functions involving local government (December 2006) These guidelines have been prepared to prompt and assist central government agencies to identify and consider key issues that may arise where local authorities are, or are proposed to be, involved in the implementation of regulatory functions.
- Rate Increases - Questions & Answers (August 2006)
- Local Government - what does it do? (July 2006)
- Local Government - how can you get involved? (July 2006)
- Strategy for Evaluating Local Government Legislation (December 2005) Link here to a copy of the strategy developed by the Department of Internal Affairs for evaluating the roles, responsibilities, powers and accountabilities of local government as defined by the Local Government Act 2002, the Local Electoral Act 2001, and the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.
- Central Government Engagement in Community Outcomes Processes - promoting effective central government engagement with local government as part of local government’s identification of community outcomes - August 2004.
- Community Outcomes Processes - including link to COP Resource Kit
- Local Government (Rating) Act Update (28/6/2002)
- Local Government Act 2002
- Local Government Commission
- Local Government Services Summary of the role of Local Government Services in the Regulation and Compliance Branch of the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, with links to association publications and further information.
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