File ref: IRC-5245
22 August 2023
Howard Coates
[FYI request #23629 email]
Kia ora Howard,
Legislative Compliance
Thank you for your request made under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
(the Act), received on 29 July 2023. You requested the fol owing information:
• Has the Council conducted a legislative compliance survey? If so, can you please provide me with
the results since 2018.
Wellington City Council has granted
your request for information.
The Council’s Assurance & Business Integrity team facilitate annual legislative compliance attestation. The
attestation process is carried out as one of the methods in place to assure that the Council has adequate
systems to manage compliance with required legislation.
Please find below a summary of the annual legislative compliance attestations since 2018:
Year
Ended
Summary of Findings
Full Report
Six Legislative Acts (of a total of fifty seven Key Acts) have been
30-Jun-18 identified as being breached in the current year. Five of the six
breaches are consistent with breaches in prior year.
Appendix 1
Five (10%) Legislative Acts (of a total of forty eight Key Acts
assessed) have been identified as being breached in the current
30-Jun-19 year. Al breaches identified have been dealt with and closed at the
time of this report. The breaches identified are consistent with
breaches identified in prior year.
Appendix 2
30-Jun-20 Six Legislative Acts of a total of forty four Key Acts assessed have
been identified as being breached in the current year.
Appendix 3
30-Jun-21 18 with a reported partial or non-compliance.
Appendix 4
30-Jun-22 14 Acts with a reported non-compliance.
Appendix 5
30-Jun-23 One non-compliance and eight partial non-compliances reported.
Appendix 6
Further to this, please find attached to this response copies of the annual legislative compliance attestation
undertaken by the Council’s Assurance & Business Integrity team referred to in the table above.
Please note, we may proactively release our response to your request with your personal information
removed.
Thank you again for your request.
Kind regards
Ollie Marchant
Official Information
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