CITY OF BRISBANE ACT 2010 No. 23 - SECT 171 171 Requests for help or advice

CITY OF BRISBANE ACT 2010 No. 23 - SECT 171

(1) A councillor may request a council employee provide advice to help the councillor make a decision.

(2) The request must comply with--

(a) the acceptable requests guidelines; and

(b) if the request is made of a council employee, other than the chief executive officer--the advice guidelines.

(3) A councillor may request the chief executive officer provide information, that the council has access to, relating to the ward the councillor represents.

(4) The request must comply with the acceptable requests guidelines.

(5) The acceptable requests guidelines are guidelines, adopted by the council, about reasonable limits on requests that a councillor may make.

(6) The advice guidelines are guidelines, adopted by the council, about the way in which a councillor is to ask a council employee for advice to help the councillor to make a decision.

Note--

Section 244 provides requirements for the acceptable requests guidelines and advice guidelines.

(7) The council must, by resolution, adopt acceptable requests guidelines and advice guidelines.

(8) If a councillor requests a council employee provide advice other than under the advice guidelines, the employee must tell the chief executive officer about the request as soon as is practicable.

(9) In this section a council employee includes a person prescribed by regulation.

(10) Subsection (11) applies if--

(a) a councillor makes a request of the chief executive officer under subsection (1) or (3); and

(b) the request complies with the acceptable requests guidelines.

(11) The chief executive officer must make all reasonable endeavours to comply with the request.

Maximum penalty for subsection (11)--10 penalty units.