LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 84 Meetings about trust land generally open to the public

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 84

84 Meetings about trust land generally open to the public

(1) All meetings relating to trust land must be open to the public, unless the trustee council decides, by resolution, that the meeting be closed to the public.

(2) The trustee council may do so only to allow the trustee council to discuss business for which public discussion would be likely to—

(a) prejudice the interests of the trustee council or someone else; or

(b) enable a person to gain a financial advantage.

(3) For example, a meeting may be closed to the public to allow the trustee council to discuss—

(a) the appointment, discipline or dismissal of local government employees; or

(b) industrial matters affecting local government employees; or

(c) starting or defending legal proceedings; or

(d) that part of the budget that relates to the trust land; or

(e) contracts proposed to be made by the trustee council.

(4) A resolution to close a meeting to the public must specify the general nature of the matters to be discussed while the meeting is closed to the public.

(5) The trustee council must not make a resolution (other than a procedural resolution) in a meeting that is closed to the public.