Local Government (General) (Annual Reports) Variation Regulations 2021 (SA)

South Australia

Local Government (General) (Annual Reports) Variation Regulations 2021

under the Local Government Act 1999

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1            Short title

2            Commencement

3            Variation provisions

Part 2—Variation of Local Government (General) Regulations 2013

4            Variation of regulation 35—Schedule 4—Annual reports

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Local Government (General) (Annual Reports) Variation Regulations 2021.

2—Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which they are made.

3—Variation provisions

In these regulations, a provision under a heading referring to the variation of specified regulations varies the regulations so specified.

Part 2—Variation of Local Government (General) Regulations 2013

4—Variation of regulation 35—Schedule 4—Annual reports

Regulation 35(2)—delete subregulation (2) and substitute:

(2)For the purposes of Schedule 4 clause 1(i) of the Act, the following material is prescribed:

(a)the report required under section 270(8) of the Act;

(b)a summary of the details (including the cost) of any interstate and international travel (excluding prescribed interstate travel) undertaken by members of the council during the relevant financial year funded in whole or in part by the council;

(c)a summary of the details (including the cost) of any interstate and international travel (excluding prescribed interstate travel) undertaken by employees of the council during the relevant financial year funded in whole or in part by the council;

(d)a summary of the details (including the cost) of any gifts above the value of $50 provided to members of the council during the relevant financial year funded in whole or in part by the council;

(e)a summary of the details (including the cost) of any gifts above the value of $50 provided to employees of the council during the relevant financial year funded in whole or in part by the council;

(f)a statement of the total amount of expenditure incurred using credit cards provided by the council for use by members or employees of the council during the relevant financial year.

(3)In this regulation—

cost of travel includes accommodation costs and other costs and expenses associated with the travel;

gift includes hospitality;

prescribed interstate travel means—

(a)travel by a member or employee (as the case may be) of a council the area of which shares a border with another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth if the travel is within that other State or that Territory and is in the course of ordinary business of the council; or

(b)travel of a kind included within the ambit of this definition by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(4)For the purposes of the definition of prescribed interstate travel, travel is taken not to be in the course of ordinary business of a council if the travel is for the purposes of a member or employee of the council attending a conference or training or development activities in another State or a Territory.

(5)The Minister may, by subsequent notice in the Gazette, vary or revoke a notice under paragraph (b) of the definition of prescribed interstate travel.

Editorial note—

As required by section 10AA(2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1978, the Minister has certified that, in the Minister's opinion, it is necessary or appropriate that these regulations come into operation as set out in these regulations.

Made by the Governor

after consultation with the Local Government Association and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council

on 23 December 2021

No 195 of 2021