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Local Government Board

Background

The Board is a statutory body established under the Local Government Act 1993 (the Act).

The Act provides that the role of the Board is:

  • to conduct reviews of councils or reviews that concentrate on a specific topic or topics at the request of the Minister for Local Government;
  • to carry out reviews of single and joint authorities; and 
  • to provided general advice to the Minister at his or her request.

Under Section 210(2) of the Act, the Board consists of:

  • the chairperson;
  • one person nominated by the Local Government Association of Tasmania (LGAT);
  • one person nominated by the Local Government Managers Australia (Tasmania) (LGMA);
  • the Director of Local Government or his or her nominee.

Under Section 210(5A), the Minister may appoint one or two additional persons to be members for the purposes of a particular review.

Further details of the current Board are available on the Board Members page.

In 2011, amendments to the Act commenced, aiming to make the Board more strategic and expertise-based rather than focusing on reviewing individual councils on a regular rotational basis.

Current work program of the Board

In September 2011, the Minister for Local Government, Bryan Green MP, asked the Board to conduct a review into the number of councillors.

Find out mroe about the review...

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