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Dear Sir

The answers to your queries are as follows:

1) South Waikato District Council meetings are opened with a prayer. There is no prescribed form, His Worship will normally ad-lib it.

2) My understanding is that there has been a prayer at the commencement of Council meetings since the South Waikato District Council was formed, in 1989.

3) There has been no formal discussion concerning the prayer since the Whanganui decision; and the SWDC has sought no specific advice concerning it, that I am aware of.

I trust that the above satisfactorily answers your queries.

Yours Faithfully

D R Hall
Chief Executive

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harris [mailto:[OIA #167 email]]
Sent: Friday, 20 April 2012 1:39 p.m.
To: INFO
Subject: Local Government Official Information and Meetings request: Does the South Waikato District Council open its meetings with a prayer?

Dear South Waikato District Council,

As you may have read recently, the Whanganui District Council
abolished its opening prayer after a complaint was made to the
Human Rights Commission. I'm interested in learning how widespread
this practice is, so I'd like to request the following information
under the LGOIMA:

* Does the Council open its meetings with a prayer? * If the answer
to the above is "yes", then I'd like a copy of that prayer (or
examples, if more than one is used), when the practice was first
established, whether the council has considered abolishing it in
the wake of the Whanganui decision, and any advice the council may
hold on the prayer's compatibility with both the Human Rights Act
1993 and Bill of Rights Act 1990.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about
this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the
fyi.org.nz website.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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