Local Government Act 2019

(1) This section applies to the minutes of a council, council committee or local authority.

(2) A copy of the minutes must, within 10 business days after the date of the meeting to which the minutes relate, be available to the public:

(3) If business that deals with confidential information was considered at the meeting, the copy of the minutes available to the public must contain a statement of that fact and the provision of this Act under which the information is confidential.

Note for subsection (3)

1 Information may be suppressed from the material that is made publicly available because the information is confidential (see section 293).

2 The regulations prescribe the information that may be suppressed.

(a) may inspect without fee, at the council's public office, the copy of the minutes made available to the public; and

(b) may, on payment of any fee fixed by the council, obtain an identical copy of the minutes; and

(c) may, on payment of any fee fixed by the council, obtain from the CEO a certified copy of, or extract from, the minutes of a meeting.

(5) However, until the council, council committee or local authority has confirmed the minutes as a correct record of the meeting:

(a) the minutes, in the form in which the minutes are made available to the public, must be marked with a warning to the effect that the minutes have not been confirmed as a correct record of the meeting; and

(b) no certified copy of, or extract from, the minutes is to be issued.