Local Government Act 2009

This section applies if—

a trustee council, that is an indigenous regional council, proposes to make a trust change decision; and

a community forum has not been established for the division of the local government where the trust land is located.

A trust change decision is a decision—

to put an improvement (including a structure, for example) on trust land; or

to create an interest in trust land (including a lease or mortgage, for example); or

that the trustee council has decided, by resolution, must be dealt with as a trust change proposal within the meaning of section 85(2).

The trust change decision has effect only if—

the decision is approved by a majority of the councillors (other than the mayor), regardless of how many councillors take part in any meeting about the decision; and

the councillor for the division of the local government area in which the trust land is located does not vote against approving the decision.