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English: Map of the Territorial Authorities of New Zealand overlayed with Regional Council areas, including the Chatham Islands in an inset. Territorial Authorities, Regional Councils and text labels are in three separate layers. Map created with GIS data from StatsNZ (Retrieved March 2017).
Regional councils are popularly elected every three years in accordance with the Local Electoral Act 2001, [25] except for the Canterbury regional council, which is a mixture of elected councillors and government appointed commissioners. [26] Councils may use a first-past-the-post or single transferable vote system. The chairperson is selected ...
For many decades until the local government reforms of 1989, a borough with more than 20,000 people could be proclaimed a city.The boundaries of councils tended to follow the edge of the built-up area, so little distinction was made between the urban area and the local government area.
The model of local government introduced after New Zealand became a British colony in 1840 had nothing in common with the tribal system practised by Māori. [2] The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, a British Act of Parliament, established six provinces in New Zealand—Auckland, New Plymouth (later to be renamed Taranaki), Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago—based on the six original ...
Map of territorial authorities after the 2010 Auckland Council amalgamation. Cities are in uppercase, others are districts. Regions are indicated with colours. The 1989 New Zealand local government reform was the most significant reform of local government in New Zealand in over a century.
Map of New Zealand. This is a list of territorial authorities in New Zealand which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Local government in New Zealand own 90% of the road network, most of the country's water and waste water networks, as well as recreation and community facilities such as parks, sportsgrounds and libraries. Local Government New Zealand also carries out policy work and interacts with areas such as the Resource Management Act. [6]
A system of counties of New Zealand was instituted after the country dissolved its provinces in 1876, and these counties were similar to other countries' systems, lasting with little change (except mergers and other localised boundary adjustments) until 1989, when they were reorganised into district and city councils within a system of larger regions.