22Motion to overturn decision

22 Motion to overturn decision

(1)  For the purposes of this regulation, a decision may be overturned, wholly or partly, by –

(a) a motion directly rescinding or otherwise overturning the decision or part of the decision; or

(b) a motion that conflicts with, or is contrary to, the decision or part of the decision.

(2)  A council or council committee may only overturn a decision passed at a previous meeting held since the last ordinary election –

(a) by an absolute majority, in the case of a council; or

(b) by a simple majority, in the case of a council committee.

(3)  Any report given by the general manager to a council in respect of a proposed motion to overturn a decision of the council, or that will result in the overturning of a decision of the council, wholly or partly, is to include –

(a) a statement that the proposed motion, if resolved in the affirmative, would overturn that previous decision or part of that previous decision; and

(b) the details of that previous decision, or the part of that previous decision, that would be overturned; and

(c) advice as to whether or not that previous decision, or that part of that previous decision, directed that certain action be taken; and

(d) if that previous decision, or that part of that previous decision, directed that certain action be taken, advice as to whether or not that action has been wholly or substantially carried out.