Entertainment and hospitality
196 Entertainment and hospitality
A local government must prepare and adopt a policy about the local government’s spending on entertainment or hospitality (an entertainment and hospitality policy).
Examples of entertainment or hospitality—
• entertaining members of the public in order to promote a local government project
• providing food or beverages to a person who is visiting the local government in an official capacity
• providing food or beverages for a conference, course, meeting, seminar, workshop or another forum that is held by the local government for its councillors, local government employees or other persons
• paying for a councillor or local government employee to attend a function as part of the councillor’s or employee’s official duties or obligations as a councillor or local government employee
A local government may spend money on entertainment or hospitality only in a way that is consistent with its entertainment and hospitality policy.
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