Description: This dataset is the definitive set of Community Board boundaries for 2010 as defined by the territorial authorities and Local Government Commission but maintained by Statistics New Zealand, who is the custodian.
Community Boards are set up under the Local Government Act 2002 and Local Electoral Act 2001. Their purpose is to administer the affairs of communities with populations not less than 1,500 within rural, urban or metropolitan districts of a territorial authority. A community board’s functions, powers and duties are delegated at the discretion of its parent territorial authority and these may differ from community board to community board. Community boards and their boundaries are reviewed in the year immediately preceding the triennial local government elections.
Community Boards are numbered based on their corresponding territorial authority. Each community board has a unique five digit number. The first three digits refer to the territorial authority that the community board lies within. The following two digits are sequential, and represent the number of community boards within the territorial authority. For example, Tararua District (041) has two community boards numbered 04101 and 04102. The rest of the district is not represented by a community board and is coded 04199 (Area Outside Community).
Some territorial authorities do not have community boards and if they do, the community boards do not necessarily cover the whole territorial authority area.
As at 1st July 2007, Digital Boundary data became freely available.