55Council to keep registers

55 Council to keep registers (1) A council must keep a register referencing all documents executed under the council's common seal.

Local Government (General) Regulations 2021 34 (2) A council must keep a register of correspondence referencing all correspondence addressed to, or sent by, the council or its principal member. (3) A council must keep a register of the following information in relation to each member of the council: (a) the member's name; (b) whether the member was appointed or elected to the council; (c) the date the member was appointed or the date the member was elected; (d) the ward the member represents (if applicable); (e) whether the member is a principal member, deputy principal member or ordinary member of the council; (f) if the member's type of membership changes during the member's membership – the date the type of membership changed, whether the member was appointed or elected to the changed type of membership and the date of the appointment or election; (g) the date of the cessation of the member's membership (if applicable). (4) For subregulation (3)(f), if a member is appointed to act in a position or has been appointed to a position for an interim period, that information does not need to be kept in the register.