sec.196Entertainment and hospitality

### sec.196 Entertainment and hospitality A local government must prepare and adopt a policy about the local government’s spending on entertainment or hospitality (an entertainment and hospitality policy ). entertaining members of the public in order to promote a local government project providing food or beverages to a person who is visiting the local government in an official capacity providing food or beverages for a conference, course, meeting, seminar, workshop or another forum that is held by the local government for its councillors, local government employees or other persons paying for a councillor or local government employee to attend a function as part of the councillor’s or employee’s official duties or obligations as a councillor or local government employee A local government may spend money on entertainment or hospitality only in a way that is consistent with its entertainment and hospitality policy. (sec.196-ssec.1) A local government must prepare and adopt a policy about the local government’s spending on entertainment or hospitality (an entertainment and hospitality policy ). entertaining members of the public in order to promote a local government project providing food or beverages to a person who is visiting the local government in an official capacity providing food or beverages for a conference, course, meeting, seminar, workshop or another forum that is held by the local government for its councillors, local government employees or other persons paying for a councillor or local government employee to attend a function as part of the councillor’s or employee’s official duties or obligations as a councillor or local government employee (sec.196-ssec.2) A local government may spend money on entertainment or hospitality only in a way that is consistent with its entertainment and hospitality policy. - • entertaining members of the public in order to promote a local government project - • providing food or beverages to a person who is visiting the local government in an official capacity - • providing food or beverages for a conference, course, meeting, seminar, workshop or another forum that is held by the local government for its councillors, local government employees or other persons - • paying for a councillor or local government employee to attend a function as part of the councillor’s or employee’s official duties or obligations as a councillor or local government employee