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Local Electoral (Equitable Process for Establishing Maori Wards and Maori Constituencies) Amendment Bill (Consistent) [2017] NZBORARp 26 (23 May 2017)
Last Updated: 6 January 2019
23 May 2017
LEGAL ADVICE
LPA 01 01 21
Hon Christopher Finlayson QC, Attorney-General
Consistency with New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990: Local Electoral
(Equitable Process for Establishing Māori Wards and Māori
Constituencies) Amendment Bill
- We
have considered whether the Local Electoral (Equitable Process for Establishing
Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies)
Amendment Bill (‘the
Bill’), a member’s Bill in the name of Marama Davidson MP, is
consistent with the rights and
freedoms affirmed in the New Zealand Bill of
Rights Act 1990 (‘the Bill of Rights Act’).
- The
Bill amends the Local Electoral Act 2001 to make the process by which
territorial authorities and regional councils can establish
Māori wards and
Māori constituencies the same as the process by which they can establish
general wards and constituencies.
It requires territorial authorities and
regional councils to consider, at least once every six years, whether to
establish Māori
wards and Māori constituencies. It also removes the
current requirement for a poll on whether to establish a Māori ward
or
Māori constituency if five per cent of electors request such a poll.
- 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
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