Public sector organisations in New Zealand

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Public sector organisations in New Zealand include the State sector plus the organisations of local government.

Within the State sector lies the State services, and within this, lies the core Public service.[1]

Legally, the Legislative Branch non-Public Service Departments (the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives[2] and the Parliamentary Service [3]), Executive Branch non-Public Service Departments, and the Public Service Departments are all part of "the Crown".[4]

State sector

Officers of Parliament

State services departments

Public service departments

The public service in New Zealand technically consists of solely the departments listed below.

State services organisations outside the core public service

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Crown entities

Main article: Crown entities
Crown agents
Autonomous crown entities
Independent crown entities
Crown entity companies
Crown Research Institutes (CRIs)

(with principal campuses)

School boards of trustees

See: Education in New Zealand

Tertiary education institutions

State-owned tertiary institutions consist of universities, colleges of education (teachers colleges), polytechnics (institutes of technology) and wānanga. In addition there are numerous non-state-owned private training establishments.

Universities

(and amalgamated colleges of education, with principal campus only)

Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics

(with principal campus only)

Wānanga
Main article: Wananga

(with principal campus only)

The following wānanga are those who have been granted Crown entity status; there are many that have not.

Public Finance Act Schedule 4 Organisations

State-owned enterprises

(see also the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 as amended)

The state enterprises are listed in Schedule 1 of the State-owned Enterprises Act.[6]

Local government

Local government in New Zealand consists of city councils, district councils and regional councils. These are all also known as "local authorities". City councils and district councils are collectively known as territorial authorities.[7]

Regional councils

City and district councils

Historic organisations

See also

For local government, see:

References

  1. State Services Commission Archived October 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. Office of the Clerk of the House of representatives Act 1988 (Retrieved 25 January 2015)
  3. 1 2 the Parliamentary Service Act 2000 (Retrieved 25 January 2015)
  4. State Services Commission
  5. "NHRP - Natural Hazards Research Platform". Retrieved 2015-03-10. NHRP - Natural Hazards Research Platform[:] A multi-party research platform funded by MBIE dedicated to increasing New Zealand's resilience to Natural Hazards via high quality collaborative research.
  6. "Schedule 1 - State enterprises". State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986. Parliamentary Counsel Office.
  7. "Local Government Sector". Local Government New Zealand.

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