Local Government (Functions and General) Regulations 1996

Where a local government intends to give a regional price preference in relation to a process, the local government is to —

prepare a proposed regional price preference policy (if no policy has yet been adopted for that kind of contract); and

give Statewide public notice of the intention to have a regional price preference policy and include in that notice —

the region to which the policy is to relate; and

details of where a complete copy of the proposed policy may be obtained; and

a statement inviting submissions commenting on the proposed policy, together with a closing date of not less than 4 weeks for those submissions;

make a copy of the proposed regional price preference policy available for public inspection in accordance with the notice; and

publish the proposed regional price preference policy on the local government’s official website.

A regional price preference policy may be expressed to be —

for different regions in respect of different parts of the contract, or the various contracts, comprising the basis of the tender;

for different goods or services within a single contract or various contracts;

for different price preferences in respect of the different goods or services, or the different regions, that are the subject of a tender or tenders (subject to the limits imposed by regulation 24D),

A region specified under this Part —

must be (or include) the entire district of the local government; and

cannot include a part of the metropolitan area.

A policy cannot be adopted by a local government until the local government has considered all submissions that are received in relation to the proposed policy and, if that consideration results in significant changes to the proposed policy, then the local government must again give Statewide public notice of the altered proposed regional price preference policy.