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'WE SHOULD BE EXEMPT': COULD THREE COUNCILS GET OUT OF THE NEW POLL PROVISIONS FOR MĀORI WARDS?
Three councils say they should be exempt from the new provisional poll requirements for Māori Wards as theirs were established prior to legislative change.
But South Taranaki, Ruapehu, and Gisborne district councils have called for an exemption from the polls because at the time they instituted the wards, there was the ability to force a poll.
They wrote: “Our Councils introduced Māori Wards and fully completed the established legislative process before the [then] Labour Government changed the legislation, removing the ability of the community to have a poll.”....
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350287803/we-should-be-exempt-could-three-councils-get-out-new-poll-provisions-maori-wards
WHAKATĀNE COUNCIL PREPARES SUBMISSION TO MĀORI WARDS BILL
Whakatāne District Council has announced it is preparing a submission on the Local Government (Electoral Legislation and Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill, in anticipation that public submissions will be called for on the Bill.
“Councillors fully support making a submission to the (Electoral Legislation and Māori Wards and Constituencies) Amendment Bill and we made a head start on drafting that, based on the direction the coalition Government had signalled and after we sought further information from our Election Services specialist,” said Mayor, Dr Victor Luca....
insidegovernment.co.nz/whakatane-council-prepares-submission-to-maori-wards-bill/
MINISTER ‘DISAGREES’ WITH 66% OF LOCAL LEADERSHIP THAT PROVISIONAL POLLS AN ‘OVERREACH’
Two thirds of the country’s mayors and council bosses are wrong that the Government is taking away local decision-making, the Local Government Minster says.
Mayors and chairpersons from across the motu came together to sign a letter penned by Local Government New Zealand that urged the Coalition Government to “reconsider its position” on proposed changes to enforce mandatory Māori ward and constituency poll provisions.
“I have received the letter from LGNZ, and I disagree with the mayors’ and chairpersons’ assertions,” he said.
He said the Coalition Government believed communities should determine whether to introduce Māori Wards, and that those councils that have introduced Māori Wards following referendums will be unaffected by these changes, but everyone else would need to hold one.
“This Government believes in localism and in letting local people decide their constitutional arrangements,” he said.....
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350285459/minister-disagrees-66-local-leadership-provisional-polls-overreach
Three councils say they should be exempt from the new provisional poll requirements for Māori Wards as theirs were established prior to legislative change.
But South Taranaki, Ruapehu, and Gisborne district councils have called for an exemption from the polls because at the time they instituted the wards, there was the ability to force a poll.
They wrote: “Our Councils introduced Māori Wards and fully completed the established legislative process before the [then] Labour Government changed the legislation, removing the ability of the community to have a poll.”....
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350287803/we-should-be-exempt-could-three-councils-get-out-new-poll-provisions-maori-wards
WHAKATĀNE COUNCIL PREPARES SUBMISSION TO MĀORI WARDS BILL
Whakatāne District Council has announced it is preparing a submission on the Local Government (Electoral Legislation and Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill, in anticipation that public submissions will be called for on the Bill.
“Councillors fully support making a submission to the (Electoral Legislation and Māori Wards and Constituencies) Amendment Bill and we made a head start on drafting that, based on the direction the coalition Government had signalled and after we sought further information from our Election Services specialist,” said Mayor, Dr Victor Luca....
insidegovernment.co.nz/whakatane-council-prepares-submission-to-maori-wards-bill/
MINISTER ‘DISAGREES’ WITH 66% OF LOCAL LEADERSHIP THAT PROVISIONAL POLLS AN ‘OVERREACH’
Two thirds of the country’s mayors and council bosses are wrong that the Government is taking away local decision-making, the Local Government Minster says.
Mayors and chairpersons from across the motu came together to sign a letter penned by Local Government New Zealand that urged the Coalition Government to “reconsider its position” on proposed changes to enforce mandatory Māori ward and constituency poll provisions.
“I have received the letter from LGNZ, and I disagree with the mayors’ and chairpersons’ assertions,” he said.
He said the Coalition Government believed communities should determine whether to introduce Māori Wards, and that those councils that have introduced Māori Wards following referendums will be unaffected by these changes, but everyone else would need to hold one.
“This Government believes in localism and in letting local people decide their constitutional arrangements,” he said.....
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350285459/minister-disagrees-66-local-leadership-provisional-polls-overreach