A government announcement restricts voting rights for unelected members on local councils, citing democratic accountability and cost to ratepayers, while addressing exceptions tied to treaty settlements and emergency committees.
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Finally, the spread of unelected members with full voting rights on councils is being stopped. The government's announced it's going to change the law. It follows the case of the Far North District Council, which gave 10 unelected eWI representatives voting rights on a committee that only had another six local uh locally elected members. Simon Watts is the local government minister and is with us morning, Simon.
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