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Local Government (Customer Focus) Amendment Bill (Consistent) [2020] NZBORARp 36 (2 July 2020)

Last Updated: 30 July 2020

2 July 2020

LEGAL ADVICE

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Hon David Parker, Attorney-General

Consistency with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990: Local Government (Customer Focus) Amendment Bill

Purpose

1. We have considered whether the Local Government (Customer Focus) Amendment Bill (‘the Bill’), a member’s Bill in the name of Hon Jacqui Dean MP, is consistent with the rights and freedoms affirmed in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (‘the Bill of Rights Act’).
2. The Bill amends the Local Government Act 2002 to require local authorities to promote a customer focus when delivering public services and performing regulatory functions, and to make chief executives responsible for ensuring that local authorities provide customer-focused delivery in these areas.
3. We have concluded that the Bill appears to be consistent with the rights and freedoms affirmed in the Bill of Rights Act.
   

Jeff Orr

Chief Legal Counsel Office of Legal Counsel