Gift Register

As per Section 5.89A of the Local Government Act 1995:

• The Chief Executive Officer is to keep a register of gifts;
• The register is to contain a record of the disclosures made under sections 87A and 5.87B;
• The CEO must record a disclosure made under section 87A or 5.87B in the register within 10 days after the disclosure is made;
• If a gift disclosed under section 87A or 5.87B is an excluded gift under section 5.62(1B)(a), the EO must record in the register
  • The date of the approval referred to in section 62(1B)(a)ii); and
  • The reasons for that approval; and
  • Any prescribed information;
• The register is to be in the form that is prescribed – Form 4;
• The CEO is to publish and up-to-date version of the register on the local government’s official website;
• The version of the register published under subsection (5) must not, in the case of the disclosure about a gift made by an individual, include the address disclosed under section 5.87C(3)(b) and must instead include the town or suburb mentioned in the address;
• As soon as practicable after a person ceases to be a person who is required under section 87A or 5.87B to make a disclosure, the CEO is to remove from the register all records relating to that person;
• If records relating to a person are removed from the register under subsection (6), a copy of the records is, for a period of at least 5 years after the person ceases to be a person require under section 5.87A or 5.87B to make a disclosure –
  • To be kept by the CEO; and
  • To be made available for public