NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 9 — 30 JANUARY 2017

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Public Excluded Business Not to be Disclosed

3.13.8 Subject to the provisions of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, no member, officer or other person shall disclose to any person other than a member or officer of the council, any information:

a. which has been presented at a time where the public is properly excluded;
b. where it is proposed that the public be properly excluded; or
c. including divulging or inferring discussion, deliberations or decisions following any such meeting except by way of release of information by the council.

Rights of Members to Request and Use Information

3.13.9 The rights of members to make separate and individual requests for information are subject to the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987. Such requests for information may include requests for information that had previously been supplied to that member as public excluded information to be released as publicly available information. Where such information is made available to that member as publicly available information the member has the right to use such information in the same way as if that member were a member of the public.

3.14 Expenses

Council May Pay Expenses Incurred Attending Meetings

3.14.1 Subject to any national policy on reimbursement levels, the council may meet reasonable travel and extraordinary accommodation expenses incurred by members attending meetings for the council, and where specifically approved by the council, attending committee meetings and on other council business.

These standing orders prepared for the New Zealand Fish and Game Council were adopted by the council at a meeting held on 23 September 2016 and apply to all meetings of the council and its committees.

LINDSAY LYONS, Chairperson.
BRYCE JOHNSON, Chief Executive.

Appendix A – Grounds to Exclude the Public

From the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

48 Right of local authorities to exclude public

(1) Subject to subsection (3), a local authority may by resolution exclude the public from the whole or any part of the proceedings of any meeting only on 1 or more of the following grounds:

a. that the public conduct of the whole or the relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting would be likely to result in the disclosure of information for which good reason for withholding would exist,—

i. where the local authority is named or specified in Schedule 1, under section 6 or section 7 (except section 7(2)(f)(i)):

ii. where the local authority is named or specified in Schedule 2 of this Act, under section 6 or section 7 or section 9 (except section 9(2)(g)(i)) of the Official Information Act 1982:

b. that the public conduct of the whole or the relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting would be likely to result in the disclosure of information the public disclosure of which would—

i. be contrary to the provisions of a specified enactment; or

ii. constitute contempt of court or of the House of Representatives:

c. that the purpose of the whole or the relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting is to consider a recommendation made to that local authority by an Ombudsman under section 30(1) or section 38(3) of this Act (in the case of a local authority named or specified in Schedule 1) or under section 30(1) or section 35(2) of the Official Information Act 1982 (in the case of a local authority named or specified in Schedule 2 of this Act):

d. that the exclusion of the public from the whole or the relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting is necessary to enable the local authority to deliberate in private on its decision or recommendation in any proceedings to which this paragraph applies.

(2) Paragraph (d) of subsection (1) applies to—

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