Public sector organisations in New ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...
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.
Offices of Parliamentary
- Office of the Controller and Auditor-General
-Role and functions:The Controller and Auditor-General is an Officer of Parliament. The Controller and Auditor-General is Lyn Provost. The Deputy Controller and Auditor-General is Phillippa Smith...
(Tumuaki o te Mana Arotake)
- Office of the Ombudsmen
New Zealand's Chief Ombudsman is appointed by the Governor-General of New Zealand to oversee investigation of complaints against government departments, and report, with recommendations, to Parliament....
(Nga Kaitiaki Mana Tangata)
- Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is an independent Officer of the New Zealand Parliament appointed for a five-year term under the Environment Act 1986...
(Te Kaitiaki Taiao a Te Whare Pāremata Aotearoa)
Public service departments
The
public serviceThe term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....
in New Zealand technically consists of solely the departments listed below.
- Archives New Zealand
Archives New Zealand is the New Zealand government public service department with overall responsibility for government recordkeeping and community archives...
(Te Whare Tohu Tuhituhinga O Aotearoa)
- Crown Law Office
The Crown Law Office of New Zealand offers legal advice to the New Zealand Government. The Solicitor-General of New Zealand, David Collins, is the organisation's chief executive. Collins has held this position since August 2006. The position itself was established in 1875...
- Department of Building and Housing
The Department of Building and Housing , previously the Ministry of Housing, is a government agency within the New Zealand government. The current Chief executive is Katrina Bach. The Department of Building and Housing is responsible to the Minister for Building and Construction , and the Minister...
(Te Tari Kaupapa Whare)
- Tenancy Services
- Building Controls
- Weathertight Homes Resolution Service
- Building and Housing Sector Policy
- Department of Conservation (Te Papa Atawhai)
- Department of Corrections (Ara Poutama Aotearoa)
- Department of Internal Affairs (Te Tari Taiwhenua)
- Births, Deaths and Marriages (Whanautanga, Matenga, Marenatanga)
- Censorship Compliance Unit
- Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management (Te Rākau Whakamarumaru)
- New Zealand Passports Office (Nga Uruwhenua)
- New Zealand Citizenship Office (Te Raraunga)
- New Zealand Gazette Office (Te Kahiti o Aotearoa)
- Translation Service, The
- Department of Labour (Te Tari Mahi)
- Employment Relations Service (Te Ratonga Honanga a Te Ima Ihi(?))
- International Services
- Labour Market Policy Group
- Immigration New Zealand
Immigration New Zealand or INZ is a part of the Workforce group of the New Zealand Department of Labour...
(Te Ratonga Manene)
- Occupational Safety and Health (Te Ratonga Oranga)
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of New Zealand is the department charged with supporting the Prime Minister of New Zealand and their Cabinet...
- Cabinet Office
- External Assessments Bureau
The External Assessments Bureau is one of New Zealand's intelligence agencies.-Role:The EAB is responsible for collecting and analysing information on external matters which may affect New Zealand, including foreign states, individuals, and events...
- Honours Secretariat
- Education Review Office
The Education Review Office or ERO is a relatively small state sector organisation of New Zealand tasked with reviewing and reporting publicly on the quality of education in all New Zealand schools...
(Te Tari Arotake Matauranga)
- New Zealand Food Safety Authority
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority , or Te Pou Oranga Kai O Aotearoa is the New Zealand government body responsible for food safety...
(Te Pou Oranga Kai O Aotearoa) (separated from MAF in July 2007)
- Government Communications Security Bureau
The Government Communications Security Bureau is an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government.The mission statement is given as:To contribute to the national security of New Zealand through:...
- Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CCIP)
- Inland Revenue Department
The Inland Revenue Department or simply Inland Revenue is the New Zealand government department responsible for the collection of taxes, payment of family assistance tax credits , payment of Paid Parental Leave, collection and payment of child support and the collection of student loans and...
(Te Tari Taake)
- Land Information New Zealand
Land Information New Zealand is a New Zealand government agency. The current Chief Executive is Colin MacDonald. The current Minister of Land Information is Maurice Williamson.- Nature & Scope of Functions :...
(Toitu te whenua)
- Crown Property Management
- New Zealand Geospatial Office
New Zealand Geospatial Office is a business unit within Land Information New Zealand. Geographic information systemTheir responsibilities include:...
- Overseas Investment Office
The Overseas Investment Office is the New Zealand government agency responsible for regulating foreign direct investment into New Zealand.- Overview :...
- Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is the state sector organisation of New Zealand which deals with matters relating to agriculture, forestry and biosecurity...
(Te Manatū Ahuwhenua Ngāherehere)
- MAF Biosecurity New Zealand
- Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage is a government agency within the New Zealand government. The current Chief Executive is Lewis D. Holden. The current Minister for Culture and Heritage is Chris Finlayson.-External links:...
(Te Manatū Taonga)
- Ministry of Defence (Manatu Kaupapa Waonga)
- Ministry of Economic Development
The Ministry of Economic Development in New Zealand has an overarching goal of promoting the development of New Zealand's economy...
(Manatū Ōhanga)
- Companies Office
The New Zealand Companies Office is a government agency that provides business registry services in relation to corporate entities, personal property and capital market securities...
- Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand is a New Zealand government agency responsible for the granting and registration of intellectual property rights, specifically patent, trade mark, design and plant variety rights. It is part of the Ministry of Economic Development...
- Ministry of Education (Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga)
- Ministry for the Environment (Manatū Mō Te Taiao)
- Ministry of Fisheries (Te Tautiaki i nga tini a Tangaroa)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is the New Zealand Government ministry responsible for promoting New Zealand's interests in trade and international relations....
(Te Manatū Aorere)
- New Zealand Agency for International Development
The New Zealand Agency for International Development is the New Zealand Government’s international aid and development agency. NZAID is a semi-autonomous body within the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade . Its Māori name is Nga Hoe Tuputupu-mai-tawhiti – the paddles that bring...
- NZAID (Nga Hoe Tuputupu-mai-tawhiti)
- Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health , formerly the Department of Health from 1903 to 1993, is a department of the New Zealand government. This is the channel through which the government channels its funding for health services, VOTE: Health.The ministry is overseen by the Minister of Health in the New Zealand...
(Manatū Hauora)
- Medsafe (New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority)
- National Radiation Laboratory
- New Zealand Health Information Service
- National Health Committee
- HealthPAC
- Ministry of Justice (Tāhū o te Ture)
- Chief Electoral Office
- Crime Prevention Unit
- Office of Treaty Settlements
- Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs
The Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs seeks to promote the status of Pacific Island people in New Zealand. It does this by keeping informed of the issues, then advocating for Pacific Islanders to other public sector agencies....
- Ministry of Research, Science and Technology
The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology is a government agency within the New Zealand government. The current Chief Executive is Dr Helen Anderson. The current Minister is Wayne Mapp.-External links:*...
(MoRST) (Te Manatū Pūtaiao)
- Ministry of Social Development
The Ministry of Social Development is a New Zealand government agency which has two main functions: providing social policy advice to the government, and providing social services.- Services :...
(Te Manatu Whakahiato Ora)
- Child, Youth and Family
Child, Youth and Family "CYF" , is the government agency that has legal powers to intervene to protect and help children who are being abused or neglected or who have problem behaviour. CYF works with the Police and the Courts in dealing with young offenders under the youth justice system...
(Te Tari Āwhina i te Tamaiti, te Rangatahi, tae atu ki te Whānau)
- Ministry of Youth Development (Te Manatū Whakahiato Taiohi)
- Office for the Community & Voluntary Sector
- Work and Income (Te Hiranga Tangata)
- Studylink (Hoto Akoranga)
- Heartland Services (Ngā Ratonga ki te Manawa o te Whenua)
- The Office for Disability issues
- The Office for Senior Citizens
- The Office of the Families Commission
- Ministry of Transport (Te Manatū Waka)
- Ministry of Women's Affairs
The Ministry of Women's Affairs provides advice to women in New Zealand about how to enhance their wellbeing.-Main Roles:The Ministry has three main areas of work, which is based on the New Zealand government's Action Plan for Women...
(Minitatanga mō ngā Wāhine)
- National Library of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand is New Zealand's legal deposit library and a public service department, charged with the obligation to 'enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations'...
(Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa)
- Alexander Turnbull Library
- New Zealand Customs Service
The Customs Service is a state sector organisation of New Zealand whose role is to provide border control and protect the community from potential risks arising from international trade and travel, as well as collecting duties and taxes on imports to the country. New Zealand's Minister of Customs...
(Te Mana Arai o Aotearoa)
- Serious Fraud Office
The New Zealand Serious Fraud Office is based upon the British model. The SFO works closely with the New Zealand Police in trying to prevent serious and complex fraud....
(Te Tari Hara Taware)
- State Services Commission
The State Services Commission , formerly the Public Service Commission, is a central government agency within the New Zealand government. The current State Services Commissioner is Iain Rennie...
(Te Komihana O Ngā Tari Kāwanatanga)
- Statistics New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand is the national statistical office of New Zealand.-Organisation:New Zealand's Minister of Statistics is Maurice Williamson who serves as a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives and holds several other posts within government...
(Te Tari Tatau)
- Te Puni Kōkiri
Te Puni Kōkiri is a New Zealand Public Sector Department responsible for Māori public policy and policy affecting Māori.The department, called TPK for short, reports to the Minister of Māori Affairs...
(Ministry of Māori Development)
- The Treasury
The New Zealand Treasury is a public sector organisation and the Government’s lead advisor on economic and financial policy. Its role is to help the Government improve economic performance and manage scarce resources...
(Kaitohutohu Kaupapa Rawa)
- New Zealand Debt Management Office
- Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit (CCMAU)
State services organisations outside the core public service
- New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force consists of three services: the New Zealand Army; the Royal New Zealand Navy; and the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The Commander-in-Chief of the NZDF is New Zealand's Governor-General Hon. Sir Anand Satyanand who exercises his power on the advice of the Minister of...
(NZDF) (Te Ope Kaatua O Aotearoa)
- New Zealand Cadet Forces
The New Zealand Cadet Forces is a voluntary military training organisation for youth. Run in a partnership between the Ministry of Defence, New Zealand Defence Force and a number of appointed community organizations, it is composed of three Corps: the Air Training Corps , the New Zealand Cadet...
- Air Training Corps
The Air Training Corps or ATC is one of the three corps in the New Zealand Cadet Forces, the other two being the New Zealand Cadet Corps and Sea Cadet Corps. It is funded in partnership between the RNZAF and communities, and its members are civilians. Members have no obligation to head into the...
- New Zealand Cadet Corps
The New Zealand Cadet Corps , is one of the three corps in the New Zealand Cadet Forces, the other two being the Air Training Corps, and Sea Cadet Corps. There is no reference to the Army within the official title of the NZCC, but an army theme is used for the NZCC. All of its members, from the...
- Sea Cadet Corps
The Sea Cadet Corps or Sea Cadets, is one of the three corps in the New Zealand Cadet Forces, the other two being the Air Training Corps, and the New Zealand Cadet Corps. Its members are civilians. Members have no obligation to join the New Zealand Defence Force however some do choose to join...
- NZDF armed forces
- New Zealand Army
The New Zealand Army , is the land component of the New Zealand Defence Force and comprises around 4,500 Regular Force personnel, 2,000 Territorial Force personnel and 500 civilians. Formerly the New Zealand Military Forces, the current name was adopted around 1946...
(Ngāti Tumatauenga)
- Regular Force
- Territorial Force
- Army Reserve
- Royal New Zealand Navy
The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force...
(RNZN)
- Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve
- Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve
The Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal New Zealand Navy .-Early history:The first Naval Volunteer units were formed in Auckland and Nelson in 1858. Over the rest of the 19th century Naval Volunteer units were formed in various ports such as Bluff,...
(RNZNVR)
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
The Royal New Zealand Air Force is the air arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. It was formed from New Zealand components of the British Royal Air Force, becoming an independent force in 1923, although many RNZAF aircrew continued to serve in the Royal Air Force until the end of the 1940s...
(RNZAF)
- Air Force Reserve
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
The Royal New Zealand Air Force is the air arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. It was formed from New Zealand components of the British Royal Air Force, becoming an independent force in 1923, although many RNZAF aircrew continued to serve in the Royal Air Force until the end of the 1940s...
(RNZAF)
- Territorial Air Force
- Veterans' Affairs New Zealand (Te Tira Ahu Ika A Whiro) (semi-autonomous body)
- New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service is an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government.-Purpose:The Security Intelligence Service is a civilian organisation, and takes no part in the enforcement of security...
- Intelligence and Security Committee, The
- Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
- Reporting Services (Hansard)
- Parliamentary Counsel Office (New Zealand)
The Parliamentary Counsel Office is a New Zealand Public Sector Organisation of the New Zealand Government. The PCO is staffed by Parliamentary Counsel, who are responsible for drafting most New Zealand legislation and publishing the official version of New Zealand Acts of Parliament and Statutory...
(Te Tari Tohutohu Paremata)
- Parliamentary Service Commission
- New Zealand Police
The New Zealand Police is the national police force of New Zealand, responsible for enforcing criminal law, enhancing public safety, maintaining order and keeping the peace throughout New Zealand...
(Ngā Pirihimana O Aotearoa)
Crown agents
- Accident Compensation Corporation
The Accident Compensation Corporation is a New Zealand Crown Entity responsible for administering the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001. The Act provides support to citizens, residents, and temporary visitors who have suffered accidental injuries.-Features:ACC is the...
(Te Kaporeihana Āwhina Hunga Whara)
- Career Services
Career Services is a New Zealand Crown agent who "aim to provide all people living in New Zealand with access to the best careers information, advice and guidance to achieve their life goals".-External links:*...
- Civil Aviation Authority
The Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand is the government agency tasked with establishing civil aviation safety and security standards in New Zealand....
- Crown Health Financing Agency
- District Health Boards
- Auckland District Health Board (Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with a population approaching 1.4 million residents, percent of the country's population. Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest...
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- Bay of Plenty District Health Board (Tauranga)
- Canterbury District Health Board (Christchurch)
- Capital and Coast District Health Board (Wellington
Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, at the southwestern tip of the North Island between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. The Wellington urban area is the major population centre of the southern North Island and is New Zealand's third most populous urban area with residents. There are ...
, PoriruaPorirua is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, immediately north of the city of Wellington, with their central business districts 20 km apart. A large proportion of the population commutes to Wellington, so it may be considered a satellite city. It almost completely surrounds...
and Kapiti CoastThe Kapiti Coast is the name of the section of the coast of the south-western North Island of New Zealand that is north of Wellington and opposite Kapiti Island. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Wellington Regional Council...
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- Counties-Manukau District Health Board (Otahuhu)
- Hawke's Bay District Health Board (Napier
Napier is a port city in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. It has a population of Less than twenty kilometres separate the centres of Hastings City and Napier, and as such the two are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"...
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- Hutt Valley District Health Board (Hutt Valley
The Hutt Valley is the large area of fairly flat land in the Hutt River valley in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Like the river that flows through it, it takes its name from Sir William Hutt, a director of the New Zealand Company in early colonial New Zealand.The river flows roughly along...
- Lower HuttLower Hutt is a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Its council has adopted the name Hutt City Council, but neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City. This alternative name can lead to confusion, as there are two cities in the...
, Upper HuttUpper Hutt is a satellite-town of Wellington City. It is New Zealand's smallest city by population, the second largest by land area. It is part of Greater Wellington.-Geography:...
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- Lakes District Health Board (Rotorua)
- MidCentral District Health Board (Palmerston North)
- Nelson-Marlborough District Health Board (Nelson
The city of Nelson is close to the centre of New Zealand. It lies at the shore of Tasman Bay, at the northern end of the South Island, and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region....
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- Northland District Health Board (Whangarei)
- Otago District Health Board (Dunedin
Dunedin , , is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of Otago. It has the largest council boundary area of any New Zealand city, and is the hub of the fifth-largest urban area...
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- South Canterbury District Health Board (Timaru)
- Southland District Health Board (Invercargill)
- Tairawhiti District Health Board (Gisborne
Gisborne is the name of the largest settlement within the Gisborne Region of northeastern New Zealand.Gisborne is named for an early Colonial Secretary William Gisborne. The council is located in the town of Gisborne .-Geography:The city of Gisborne is located at the north end of Poverty Bay...
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- Taranaki District Health Board (New Plymouth
New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers came....
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- Waikato District Health Board (Hamilton
Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's seventh largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...
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- Wairarapa District Health Board (Masterton
Masterton is a town and local government district in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. It is the largest town in the Wairarapa, a region separated from Wellington by the Rimutaka ranges...
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- Waitemata District Health Board (Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with a population approaching 1.4 million residents, percent of the country's population. Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest...
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- West Coast District Health Board (Greymouth)
- Whanganui District Health Board (Wanganui)
- Earthquake Commission
New Zealand's Earthquake Commission provides primary natural disaster insurance to the owners of dwellings in New Zealand. It manages a fund of $NZ5.4 billion...
- Electricity Commission
The New Zealand Electricity Commission is a government authority set up in 2003 to regulate the Electricity sector in New Zealand.The Commission is established under the Electricity Act and regulates the operation of the electricity industry and markets in accordance government energy policy...
(Te Komihana Hiko)
- Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority is a New Zealand government/crown agency responsible for promoting energy effciency and conservation....
- Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology is a Crown Entity of New Zealand, established by the Foundation for Research, Science, and Technology Act 1990....
- Health Research Council of New Zealand
The Health Research Council of New Zealand is a Crown agency of the New Zealand Government.It is responsible for managing the government's investment in health research for the public good....
- Health Sponsorship Council
The Health Sponsorship Council is a New Zealand Crown Entity responsible for promoting health and healthy lifestyles to New Zealanders through social marketing.-History:...
- Housing New Zealand Corporation
Housing New Zealand Corporation is a Crown agent that provides housing services for New Zealanders in need. It is also the New Zealand Government's principal advisor on housing. Housing New Zealand is a statutory corporation set up under the Housing Corporation Act 1974, as amended by the Housing...
- Legal Services Agency
- Maritime New Zealand
Maritime New Zealand is a Crown entity responsible for protecting the maritime environment within New Zealand and maintaining safety and security....
- New Zealand Antarctic Institute
Antarctica New Zealand is an Institute set up by the New Zealand Government in 1996 to manage its interests in Antarctica and the Ross Sea. As well as providing logistics support to a large scientific programme, it also runs bases such as Scott Base...
- New Zealand Blood Service
The New Zealand Blood Service is the body primarily responsible for blood donation and related services in New Zealand.Unlike its Australian counterpart, the NZBS is a service operated by the New Zealand Government, not the New Zealand Red Cross....
- New Zealand Fire Service Commission
The New Zealand Fire Service Commission is the overseeing authority controlling the New Zealand Fire Service and the New Zealand National Rural Fire Authority...
- New Zealand Qualifications Authority
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority is the New Zealand government crown entity tasked with providing national and international leadership in assessment and qualifications...
- New Zealand Tourism Board
Tourism New Zealand is the national institution tasked with promoting New Zealand as a tourism destination internationally. It is the trading name of the New Zealand Tourism Board, a Crown entity established under the New Zealand Tourism Board Act 1991...
- New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is the government of New Zealand's official economic development agency. It works to stimulate growth, boost export earnings, strengthen regional economies, and deliver economic development assistance to industries and individual businesses...
- New Zealand Transport Agency
The NZ Transport Agency is a New Zealand Crown entity tasked with promoting safe and functional transport by land, and includes responsibilities such as driver and vehicle licensing. It was created on 1 August 2008 by the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008, merging Transit New Zealand...
- New Zealand Walking Access Commission
- Pharmaceutical Management Agency
The Pharmaceutical Management Agency is a New Zealand Crown agent that decides, on behalf of District Health Boards, which medicines are subsidised. It was established under the Public Health and Disability Act 2000.-External links:*...
- Real Estate Agents Authority
- Social Workers Registration Board
- Sport and Recreation New Zealand
Sport & Recreation New Zealand, also known as SPARC, is the New Zealand government body responsible for community sport and recreation programs.The SPARC vision aims:*to be the most active nation....
- Tertiary Education Commission
Autonomous crown entities
- Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand
The Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand was established in 1976 by the government of New Zealand under the Alcohol Advisory Council Act 1976 following a report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Sale of Liquor...
- Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa
- Broadcasting Commission
NZ On Air is an independent New Zealand broadcast funding agency. It is an autonomous crown entity separate from central Government and governed by a Board of six appointed by the Minister of Broadcasting...
(New Zealand on Air) (Irirangi Te Motu)
- Charities Commission
The Charities Commission is a New Zealand crown entity, established by the Charities Act 2005, whose responsibilities include:*maintaining and monitoring a register of charities*receiving annual returns and monitoring the activities of charities...
- Environmental Risk Management Authority
The Environmental Risk Management Authority is a New Zealand government agency which controls the introduction of hazardous substances and new organisms....
- Families Commission
The Families Commission is a New Zealand crown entity, established by the Families Commission Act 2003, whose responsibilities include increasing public awareness and promoting better understanding of matters relating to the interests of families, shaping government policies that promote or serve...
- Government Superannuation Fund Authority
- Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation
- Mental Health Commission
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is the national museum of New Zealand. It is branded and commonly known as Te Papa and Our Place; "Te Papa Tongarewa" is broadly translatable as "the place of treasures of this land"...
- New Zealand Artificial Limb Board
- New Zealand Film Commission
The New Zealand Film Commission is a New Zealand government agency formed to assist with creating and promoting New Zealand films...
- New Zealand Historic Places Trust (Pouhere Taonga)
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust is a non-profit trust that advocates for the protection of ancestral sites and heritage buildings in New Zealand...
- New Zealand Lotteries Commission
- New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is the national orchestra of New Zealand. It is a crown entity owned by the Government of New Zealand, with 90 full-time players....
- New Zealand Teachers Council
- Public Trust
- Retirement Commission
The Retirement Commission is a Crown Entity under the New Zealand Crown Entities Act 2004....
- Standards Council
- Te Māngai Pāho (Maori Broadcasting Funding Agency)
Te Māngai Pāho is a New Zealand Crown Entity responsible for promotion of Māori language and culture by providing funding for Māori language programming on radio and television. Set up by an amendment to the Broadcasting Act in 1989 it receives funding directly from the government.-External links:*...
- Te Taura Whiri I Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Commission)
New Zealand's Māori Language Commission is a autonomous crown entity set up under the Māori Language Act 1987 with the following functions:...
- Testing Laboratory Registration Council
Independent crown entities
- Accounting Standards Review Board
Accounting Standards Review Board is a body set up to review and approve financial reporting standards in New Zealand. It was formed by the Financial Reporting Act of 1993ASRB can have between four to seven members...
- Broadcasting Standards Authority
The Broadcasting Standards Authority is a New Zealand Crown Entity created by the Broadcasting Act 1989 to develop and uphold standards of broadcasting for radio, free-to-air and pay television.The main functions of the BSA are:...
- Children's Commissioner (New Zealand)
- Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission is a government agency charged with enforcing legislation promoting competition in New Zealand markets and prohibits misleading and deceptive conduct by traders...
- Drug Free Sport New Zealand
- Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission of New Zealand is a governmental body responsible for administering certain aspects of the country's electoral system. It is an independent Crown entity, not part of any larger department or ministry, and was established under the Electoral Act 1993...
- Health and Disability Commissioner
The Health And Disability Commissioner is a New Zealand crown entity responsible for promoting and protecting the rights of health and disability consumers, and facilitating the fair, simple, speedy, and efficient resolution of complaints .-External links:*...
- New Zealand Human Rights Commission
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission is the national human rights institution in New Zealand. It is a New Zealand Government agency that applies and enforces the Human Rights Act 1993, a New Zealand statute outlawing particular kinds of discrimination.The Commission was formed in 1977, and...
- Independent Police Conduct Authority
- Law Commission
New Zealand's Law Commission was established in 1986 by the Law Commission Act 1985. The Commission is a Crown Entity under the Crown Entities Act 2004....
- Office of Film and Literature Classification (New Zealand)
The Office of Film and Literature Classification is the government agency in New Zealand that is responsible for classification of all films, videos, publications, and some video games in New Zealand...
- Privacy Commissioner (New Zealand)
- Securities Commission
The Securities Commission is an independent Crown Entity and New Zealand's main regulator of investments. It also runs a co-regulatory model with the New Zealand Stock Exchange.The Securities Commission undertakes the following roles:...
- Takeovers Panel (New Zealand)
- Transport Accident Investigation Commission
Crown entity companies
- New Zealand Fast Forward Fund Limited
- New Zealand Venture Investment Fund Limited
- Radio New Zealand Limited
Radio New Zealand Limited is New Zealand's public service radio broadcaster.-History:Radio New Zealand was established in 1975. Until that year, radio services were provided by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation , and, before 1962, the New Zealand Broadcasting Service...
- Television New Zealand Limited
Television New Zealand, more commonly referred to, and stylized as TVNZ, is a government-owned corporation television network broadcasting in New Zealand and parts of the Pacific. It operates TV1, TV2 and new media services.-History:...
(TVNZ)
Crown Research Institutes (CRIs)
(with principal campuses)
- AgResearch (New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture Research Institute Limited) (Ruakura
Ruakura is a semi-rural suburb of Hamilton City, in the Waikato region of New Zealand. The University of Waikato is nearby. The area lies to the east of urban Hamilton and to the west of State Highway 1B .The Waikato region is a major contributor to New Zealand's agricultural-based economy, and...
, HamiltonHamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's seventh largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...
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- Crop & Food Research (New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research Limited) (Lincoln
Lincoln is a town in the Selwyn District of Canterbury, New Zealand. The town has a population of 2,727.-Location:It is located on the Canterbury Plains to the west of Banks Peninsula, 22 kilometres south of Christchurch.-History:...
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- ESR
The Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited is a Crown Research Institute in New Zealand.ESR's work underpins the Health and Justice systems in New Zealand by delivering solutions in environmental health and forensic science....
(Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited) (PoriruaPorirua is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, immediately north of the city of Wellington, with their central business districts 20 km apart. A large proportion of the population commutes to Wellington, so it may be considered a satellite city. It almost completely surrounds...
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- Forest Research (New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited) (Rotorua)
- GNS Science
GNS Science is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute. It focuses on geology, geophysics , and nuclear science ....
(formerly Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited) (Lower HuttLower Hutt is a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Its council has adopted the name Hutt City Council, but neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City. This alternative name can lead to confusion, as there are two cities in the...
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- HortResearch (The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Limited) (Auckland)
- IRL
Industrial Research Limited is a Crown Research Institute of New Zealand. Its focus is on working in areas of technological research which can be commercialised...
(Industrial Research Limited) Web page (Lower HuttLower Hutt is a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Its council has adopted the name Hutt City Council, but neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City. This alternative name can lead to confusion, as there are two cities in the...
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- Landcare Research
Landcare Research, or Manaaki Whenua in the Māori language, is one of New Zealand's Crown Research Institutes. The focus of the research at this company is the environment, biodiversity, and sustainability.-History:...
(Landcare Research New Zealand Limited) (LincolnLincoln is a town in the Selwyn District of Canterbury, New Zealand. The town has a population of 2,727.-Location:It is located on the Canterbury Plains to the west of Banks Peninsula, 22 kilometres south of Christchurch.-History:...
)
- NIWA
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research , known in the Māori language as Taihoro Nukurangi, is a Crown Research Institute of New Zealand. Established in 1992, NIWA conducts commercial and non-commercial research across a broad range of disciplines in the environmental sciences...
(National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited) (Wellington)
- Institute For Social Research and Development Limited (Wellington). Disestablished in 1995 after failing to achieve financial viability.
Tertiary education institutions
State-owned tertiary institutions consist of universities, colleges of education (teachers colleges), polytechnics (institutes of technology) and
wānangaIn New Zealand, a wānanga is a type of publicly owned tertiary institution that provides education in a Maori cultural context. According to legal definitions , wānanga are similar in many ways to mainstream universities...
. In addition there are numerous non-state-owned
private training establishments.
- See also: Education in New Zealand
Education in New Zealand follows the three-tier model which includes primary schools, followed by secondary schools and tertiary education at universities and/or polytechs...
Universities
(and amalgamated colleges of education, with principal campuses)
- Auckland University of Technology
The Auckland University of Technology is the newest university in New Zealand. It was formed on 1 January 2000 when the Auckland Institute of Technology was granted university status. Its primary campus is on Wellesley Street in Auckland's Central business district . A secondary campus is at...
(AUT) (Te Wananga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau) (Auckland)
- Correspondence School, The
The Correspondence School is New Zealand's largest school, with students from early childhood to secondary level. In addition to its ordinary full-time students, it provides programmes to students at other state-owned schools where a subject is unavailable, and to adults...
- Lincoln University
Lincoln University is a New Zealand university that was formed in 1990 when Lincoln College, Canterbury was made independent of the University of Canterbury...
(LincolnLincoln is a town in the Selwyn District of Canterbury, New Zealand. The town has a population of 2,727.-Location:It is located on the Canterbury Plains to the west of Banks Peninsula, 22 kilometres south of Christchurch.-History:...
)
- Massey University
Massey University is one of New Zealand's largest universities with approximately 36,000 students. The University has campuses in Palmerston North , Wellington and Auckland . In addition, Massey offers most of its degrees extramurally within New Zealand and internationally...
(Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa) (Palmerston North, Wellington, NapierNapier is a port city in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. It has a population of Less than twenty kilometres separate the centres of Hastings City and Napier, and as such the two are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"...
and Albany, North ShoreNorth Shore City is a city in the Auckland region of New Zealand. The city had a population of making it the fourth most populous city in New Zealand. The city is also the country's fourth largest city in land, with an area of 129.81 square kilometres and a coastline of 141 kilometres...
)
- Massey University College of Education (Palmerston North, Wellington, Napier
Napier is a port city in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. It has a population of Less than twenty kilometres separate the centres of Hastings City and Napier, and as such the two are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"...
and Albany, North ShoreNorth Shore City is a city in the Auckland region of New Zealand. The city had a population of making it the fourth most populous city in New Zealand. The city is also the country's fourth largest city in land, with an area of 129.81 square kilometres and a coastline of 141 kilometres...
)
- University of Auckland
The University of Auckland is New Zealand's largest university and the top-ranked New Zealand university in the THES - QS World University Rankings. Established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand, the university is now made up of eight faculties over six campuses,...
(Te Whare Wānanga O Tamaki Makaurau) (Auckland)
- Auckland College of Education
Auckland College of Education was a college of education located in Auckland, New Zealand. On 1 September 2004 it amalgamated with the University of Auckland and formed a new Faculty of Education with the university’s School of Education....
(ACE) (Te Kura Akoranga o Tamaki Makaurau) (Auckland and WhangareiTe Hihi to airport|-| bgcolor="#FFCCBB" | Territorial
Authority| bgcolor="#FFEEDD" | Name || Whangarei District Council|-| bgcolor="#FFCCBB" | Regional
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)
- University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...
(Te Whare Wānanga O Waitaha) (Christchurch)
- University of Otago
The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 20,000 students enrolled during 2006.The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it...
(Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo) (Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington)
- University of Waikato
The University of Waikato is located in Hamilton and Tauranga, New Zealand, and was established in 1964. It has strengths across a broad range of subject areas, particularly its degrees in Computer Science and in Management...
(Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato) (HamiltonHamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's seventh largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...
and Tauranga)
- University of Waikato School of Education (Hamilton
Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's seventh largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...
)
- Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington, also known in Māori as Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui, was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and...
(VUW) (Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui) (Wellington)
- Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education
The Faculty of Education of Victoria University of Wellington was formed from the former School of Education of the University, and the former Wellington College of Education on 1 January 2005....
(previously Wellington College of Education (WCE) (Te Whānau o Ako Pai ki te Upoko o te Ika)) (Wellington and Wanganui)
Colleges of education
(with campuses)
- Christchurch College of Education (CCE) (Te Whare Whai Mātauraka Ki Ōtautahi) (Christchurch and Nelson
The city of Nelson is close to the centre of New Zealand. It lies at the shore of Tasman Bay, at the northern end of the South Island, and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region....
)
- Dunedin College of Education
The University of Otago College of Education is a teacher-training facility in Dunedin, New Zealand, run as part of the University of Otago since 2007. Formerly called Dunedin College of Education , the college was founded in 1876, and has the longest continuous history of teacher education in New...
(DCE) (Te Kura Akau Taitoka) (Dunedin and Invercargill). Amalgamated with the University of OtagoThe University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 20,000 students enrolled during 2006.The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it...
in 2007
Polytechnics and institutes of technologyInstitute of technology, and polytechnic, are designations employed in a wide range of learning institutions awarding different types of degrees and operating often at variable levels of the educational system...
(with principal campus only)
- Aoraki Polytechnic
Aoraki Polytechnic is a public NZ Tertiary Education Institution. Aoraki Polytechnic's main campus is based in central Timaru, South Canterbury, South Island,New Zealand. It also has campuses offering a variety of programmes in Ashburton, Oamaru, Christchurch and Dunedin....
(Timaru)
- Bay of Plenty Polytechnic
Bay of Plenty Polytechnic offers the largest range of New Zealand Qualifications Authority approved programmes in Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty....
(Tauranga)
- Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
The Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology is an institute of technology in Christchurch, New Zealand. It provides full- and part-time education leading to certificates, diplomas, applied bachelor's degrees and applied master's degrees in technologies and trades.CPIT is one of New...
(CPIT) (Christchurch)
- Eastern Institute of Technology
The Eastern Institute of Technology is a public Tertiary Education Institution in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand.It is also referred to as EIT Hawke's Bay or simply EIT. EIT serves as the main regional higher education centre for Hawke's Bay...
(EIT) (Taradale)
- Manukau Institute of Technology
Manukau Institute of Technology is a large Institute of Technology in Manukau City, New Zealand. It is located on two campuses in Otara, 30 minutes from central Auckland and 5 minutes from Manukau.-History:...
(MIT) (Manukau CityManukau City is a large city in the Auckland Region / Greater Auckland area of New Zealand. The city is sometimes referred to as South Auckland, but this term does not possess official recognition and does not encompass areas like East Auckland, which is within the official boundaries of Manukau City...
)
- Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology
A public NZ Tertiary Education Institution. Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology main campuses are in Nelson and Blenheim, South Island, New Zealand....
(NMIT) (NelsonThe city of Nelson is close to the centre of New Zealand. It lies at the shore of Tasman Bay, at the northern end of the South Island, and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region....
)
- NorthTec
NorthTec, formerly called Northland Polytechnic is a tertiary education provider and one of a number of state sector organisations in New Zealand, based in Whangarei, Northland, with campuses in Kerikeri, Rawene, Kaitaia, Kaikohe and Dargaville . To enlarge the map or any other of the...
, formerly Northland Polytechnic (Whangarei)
- Otago Polytechnic
The Otago Polytechnic is a public New Zealand tertiary education institute, centred in Dunedin with campuses throughout the region of Otago including Cromwell, Wanaka and Queenstown....
(Dunedin)
- Southern Institute of Technology
The Southern Institute of Technology is the most well recognized Tertiary Education Institution of the province of Southland, New Zealand....
(SIT) (Invercargill)
- Tai Poutini Polytechnic
Tai Poutini Polytechnic is a selection of campuses spread across New Zealand offering many different courses in tertiary education. The main campus is based in Greymouth on the West Coast region of New Zealand, but also incorporates the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand in Auckland and...
(Greymouth)
- Tairawhiti Polytechnic
Tairawhiti Polytechnic is a public New Zealand tertiary education institution. The main campus is based in Gisborne in the North Island. It provides full- and part-time education leading to certificates, diplomas, and applied bachelor's degrees.- Subjects :...
(GisborneGisborne is the name of the largest settlement within the Gisborne Region of northeastern New Zealand.Gisborne is named for an early Colonial Secretary William Gisborne. The council is located in the town of Gisborne .-Geography:The city of Gisborne is located at the north end of Poverty Bay...
)
- Telford Rural Polytechnic
Telford Rural Polytechnic is a public Tertiary Education Institution. Its campus is in Otanomomo, just south of Balclutha, South Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.- External links :*...
(OtanomomoOtanomomo is a locality in the South Otago region of New Zealand's South Island. It is situated on the banks of the Clutha River, roughly 6 km south of Balclutha. Nearby settlements include Finegand to the north, Paretai, Puerua, and Romahapa to the south, and Waitepeka to the west.- Education :A...
)
- The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand is a Government-owned tertiary education institution operating as the specialist national provider of open and distance learning ....
(Lower HuttLower Hutt is a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Its council has adopted the name Hutt City Council, but neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City. This alternative name can lead to confusion, as there are two cities in the...
)
- UCOL
Universal College of Learning is a New Zealand Government TEI located primarily in Palmerston North but has campuses also in the other parts of the lower North Island.-History:...
(Universal College of Learning) (Palmerston North)
- Unitec New Zealand
Unitec New Zealand is a Government-funded institute of technology in Auckland, New Zealand.The main campus is situated in Mt Albert, Auckland City, while a secondary campus is situated in Henderson, Waitakere City, and a third campus in Takapuna, North Shore City...
(Auckland)
- Waiariki Institute of Technology
Waiariki Institute of Technology, based in Rotorua, is one of the largest tertiary institutes in New Zealand outside of universities. Originally developed as a centre for adult and trades education, the institute began to offer bachelor degree programmes in the early 1990s. The main Rotorua campus...
(Rotorua)
- Waikato Institute of Technology
The Waikato Institute of Technology, marketed as Wintec, is a technological learning institute based in Hamilton, New Zealand, and the fifth largest institute of technology/polytechnic within New Zealand, with around 16,000 full-time and part-time students, 1,200 full-time and part-time staff - and...
(WINTEC) (HamiltonHamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's seventh largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...
)
- Wellington Institute of Technology
The Wellington Institute of Technology, or WelTec is a public New Zealand polytechnic based in Petone. WelTec was formed by an amalgamation between the Central Institute of Technology and the Hutt Valley Polytechnic in 2001. Hutt Valley Polytechnic was established in 1904. WelTec delivers...
(WelTec) (PetonePetone is a major suburb of the city of Lower Hutt in New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the narrow triangular plain of the Hutt River, on the northern shore of Wellington Harbour...
and Lower HuttLower Hutt is a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Its council has adopted the name Hutt City Council, but neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City. This alternative name can lead to confusion, as there are two cities in the...
)
- Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (New Plymouth
New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers came....
)
- Whitireia Community Polytechnic
Whitireia Community Polytechnic is a crown owned tertiary education institute in New Zealand.-History:...
(WCP) (PoriruaPorirua is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, immediately north of the city of Wellington, with their central business districts 20 km apart. A large proportion of the population commutes to Wellington, so it may be considered a satellite city. It almost completely surrounds...
)
See also: Institute of technology#New Zealand
Wānanga
(with principal campus only)
The following wānanga are those who have been granted
Crown entityA Crown entity is an organisation that forms part of New Zealand's state sector established under the Crown Entities Act 2004, a unique umbrella governance and accountability statute...
status; there are many that have not.
- Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is a tertiary education provider, specifically a wānanga, in New Zealand. Its name, which is in Māori, literally means "University of New Zealand" and it recently became the largest public tertiary education institution in the nation , delivering educational programmes across...
(TWOA) (Te AwamutuTe Awamutu is a town in the Waikato in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the council seat of the Waipa District and serves as a service town for the farming communities which surround it...
)
- Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa (TWOR) (Ōtaki
Otaki is a town in the Kapiti Coast District of the North Island of New Zealand, situated half way between the capital city Wellington, 70 kilometres to the southwest, and Palmerston North, 70 kilometres to the northeast. It marks the northernmost point of the Wellington Region. The town's...
)
- Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi (Whakatāne)
Public Finance Act Schedule 4 Organisations
- Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust
- Asia New Zealand Foundation
- Auckland Transition Agency
- Fish and Game Councils
- Auckland and Waikato
- Central South Island
- Eastern
- Hawke’s Bay
- Nelson Marlborough
- North Canterbury
- Northland
- Otago
- Southland
- Taranaki
- Wellington
- West Coast
- Leadership Development Centre Trust
- Maori Trustee, The
- National Pacific Radio Trust
- New Zealand Fast Forward Limited
- New Zealand Fish and Game Council
- New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Trust Board
- New Zealand Government Property Corporation
- New Zealand Lottery Grants Board
- Ngai Tahu Ancillary Claims Trust
- Pacific Co-operation Foundation
- Pacific Island Business Development Trust
- Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand Limited
- Reserve Boards (24)
- Road Safety Trust
- Sentencing Council
State-owned enterprises
- (see also the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986
State-owned enterprises in New Zealand are registered companies listed under Schedules 1 and 2 of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986...
as amended)
- AgriQuality Limited
AsureQuality Limited is a state-owned Enterprise fully owned by the Government of New Zealand. The company's expertise lies in the areas of Food safety and Biosecurity...
- Airways Corporation of New Zealand Limited
Airways New Zealand is the sole Air Traffic Service provider in New Zealand.The company was created 1987 as a State-Owned Enterprise having formerly being a division of the Ministry of Transport, a government department. This followed the recommendations of the 1986 Mason-Morris Review...
- Animal Control Products Limited
Animal Control Products Limited is a state-owned enterprise of the New Zealand government. Its main business is the manufacture and sale of pest management products.-History:...
- AsureQuality Limited
- Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Limited
The Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Ltd is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise formed on April 1, 1987, as a transition entity in the process ofderegulating the New Zealand electricity market...
- Genesis Power Limited
Genesis Power Limited is a New Zealand electricity generation and electricity, natural gas and LPG retailing company, and trades as Genesis Energy...
- Kordia (formerly BCL)
- Landcorp Farming Limited
Landcorp Farming Limited is a state-owned enterprise of the New Zealand government. Its core business is pastoral farming including dairy, sheep, beef and deer...
- Learning Media Limited
- MCS Limited (listed in Act; never established)
- Meridian Energy Limited
- Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited
Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited has been in existence since 1992 when it was established as a State-Owned Enterprise...
- Mighty River Power Limited
Mighty River Power Limited is a New Zealand electricity generation and electricity retailing company. It was formed from the breakup of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in 1999 as a result one of the reforms of the New Zealand Electricity Market and corporatised to become a...
- New Zealand Post Limited
New Zealand Post, commonly referred by its acronym, NZPost is a State owned enterprise responsible for providing postal service in New Zealand.-History:...
- ONTRACK
OnTrack was a Syracuse, New York Regional rail line. During its operation, Syracuse was the smallest city in the United States to have regional train service. The line ran from Colvin Street on the city's south side via Syracuse University and Armory Square to the Carousel Center, using four Budd...
(formerly the New Zealand Railways Corporation)
- Quotable Value Ltd (QV)
- Solid Energy New Zealand Limited
Solid Energy is the largest coal mining company in New Zealand and is a state owned enterprise of the New Zealand Government.The company was formed from the former government department State Coal Mines. It was then established as a state owned enterprise called Coal Corporation in 1987, and...
- Terralink International
Terralink International is a New Zealand owned and operated provider of Geographic information systems and mapping solutions for better business management. They assist organisations in integrating their own data sets to create effective, sophisticated GIS systems, and specialise in delivering...
(privatised)
- Timberlands West Coast Limited
Timberlands West Coast Limited is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise based on the West Coast.It was formed to manage the native and exotic forests on the West Coast of the defunct New Zealand Forest Service....
- Transpower New Zealand Limited
Transpower New Zealand Limited is the state-owned enterprise responsible for electric power transmission in New Zealand. Transpower performs two major functions in the New Zealand Electricity Market. As the National Grid owner it provides a platform for competition among electricity generation...
Local government
Local government in New Zealand consists of city councils, district councils and
regional councilsThe region is the top tier of local government in New Zealand. There are 16 regions of New Zealand. Twelve are governed by an elected regional council, while four are governed by territorial authorities which also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authorities...
. These are all also known as "local authorities". City councils and district councils are collectively known as
territorial authoritiesTerritorial authorities are the second tier of local government in New Zealand, below regional councils. There are 73 territorial authorities: 16 city councils, 56 district councils, and the Chatham Islands Council...
.
Historic departments
- New Zealand Railways Department
The New Zealand Railways Department, NZR or NZGR and often known as the "Railways", was a government department charged with owning and maintaining New Zealand's railway infrastructure and operating the railway system. The Department was created in 1880 and was reformed in 1981 into the New...
(corporatised in 1981 as a state-owned enterprise, the New Zealand Railways Corporation, including the infrastructure, which is now ONTRACKOnTrack was a Syracuse, New York Regional rail line. During its operation, Syracuse was the smallest city in the United States to have regional train service. The line ran from Colvin Street on the city's south side via Syracuse University and Armory Square to the Carousel Center, using four Budd...
)
- Ministry of Works
The New Zealand Ministry of Works, formerly the Department of Public Works and sometimes referred to as the Public Works Department or PWD, was founded in 1876 and disestablished and privatised in 1988...
(formerly the Department of Public Works)
- New Zealand Post Office
The New Zealand Post Office was a New Zealand government department until 1 April 1987. At that date, the department was abolished under the Postal Services Act 1987, and three state-owned enterprises were formed:* New Zealand Post Limited,...
(corporatised in 1987 as New Zealand PostNew Zealand Post, commonly referred by its acronym, NZPost is a State owned enterprise responsible for providing postal service in New Zealand.-History:...
, PostBankPostBank was the trading name of the Post Office Bank Limited, a bank owned by the New Zealand Government. PostBank was formed when the New Zealand Post Office was split up by the Postal Services Act 1987 into Post Office Bank Ltd , New Zealand Post Ltd and Telecom Corporation of New Zealand...
and TelecomTelecom New Zealand is a Wellington, New Zealand-based telephone company and, through its subdivision Xtra, an internet service provider. It has been run as a publicly-traded private company since 1990. It is also New Zealand's second largest mobile operator...
)
- Land Transport New Zealand
Land Transport New Zealand was a Crown entity in New Zealand, tasked with promoting safe and functional transport by land, and includes responsibilities such as driver and vehicle licensing...
- State Hydro Department, became New Zealand Electricity Department, then NZE, then ECNZ
The Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Ltd is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise formed on April 1, 1987, as a transition entity in the process ofderegulating the New Zealand electricity market...
- Department of Social Welfare (restructured in 1999)
- Income Support Service became Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ)
- Children, Young Persons and their Families Agency became Child Youth and Family Service
- the remainder of core services became part of the Ministry of Social Policy.
See also
- Centre for Strategic Studies New Zealand
The Centre for Strategic Studies:New Zealand is an international and military affairs research centre located in Wellington, New Zealand...
- New Zealand Cabinet
The New Zealand Cabinet functions as the policy and decision-making body of the executive branch within the New Zealand government system. The Prime Minister and many Ministers of the Crown serve as members of the Cabinet....
- Institute of Public Administration New Zealand
Institute of Public Administration New Zealand is a voluntary public administration organisation. IPANZ states their goal is to...
For local government, see:
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