2026/27 FINANCIAL POLICIES · Attachment 8 - General Rates and Charges Debt Management and Recovery Policy

Attachment 8 – General Rates and Charges Debt Management and Recovery Policy
 •    sustainability: by ensuring overdue rates and charges remain at a level that does not
      substantially and negatively impact Council services.

 SCOPE

 The Policy outlines Council’s recovery procedures and applies to all Council ratepayers
 and debtors. Council will exercise its rates and charges recovery powers in accordance
 with chapter 4, part 12 of the Regulation, to maintain liquidity through adequate cash flows,
 to fund operations.

 REVIEW

 This Policy will be reviewed at least once per Council term (every four years) and otherwise
 whenever Council considers review necessary or prudent.

 DEFINITIONS

Term                   Meaning

Act                    The Local Government Act 2009.

CEO                    Council’s Chief Executive Officer.

Council                Noosa Shire Council, the body of elected members responsible for the
                       good rule and local government of Noosa Shire, established and
                       continued by the Local Government Act 2009.

Councillors            Council’s elected members.

Executive Team         Council’s administrative team of senior executive officers, comprising the
                       CEO and five directors.

Regulation             The Local Government Regulation 2012.

Shire                  Council’s local government area as defined by the Regulation (section 6
                       and schedule 1).

 To assist in the interpretation of the Policy, refer to the dictionary schedules contained in
 the Act and the Regulation for definitions.

 COUNCIL POLICY

 Council is committed to the collection of overdue rates, charges, and sundry debts in a fair,
 equitable and efficient manner, duly considering financial hardship case-by-case. Council
 will be duly diligent in the application of administrative processes relating to payment
 arrangements and the selection of various actions for the effective recovery of overdue
 debts.




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