LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 28 Power to make a local law

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 28

28 Power to make a local law

(1) A local government may make and enforce any local law that is necessary or convenient for the good rule and local government of its local government area.

(2) However, a local government must not make a local law—

(a) that sets a penalty of more than 850 penalty units for each conviction of failing to comply with a local law, including each conviction when there is more than 1 conviction for a continuing offence or repeat offence; or

(b) that purports to stop a local law being amended or repealed in the future; or

(c) about a subject that is prohibited under division 3 .