Public sector organisations in New Zealand comprise the state sector organisations plus those of local government.
Within the state sector lies the state services, and within this lies the core public service.
Legally, the legislative branch non-public service departments (the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Parliamentary Service), executive branch non-public service departments, and the public service departments are all part of "the Crown".
State sector
Offices of Parliament
State services departments
Public service departments
The public service in New Zealand technically consists solely of the departments listed below.
Departmental agencies
*replaces the Office of Ethnic Communities (previously Ethnic Affairs) that was part of Internal Affairs
Interdepartmental executive boards
State services organisations outside the core public service
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Crown entities
Crown agents
Autonomous crown entities
Independent crown entities
Crown entity companies
Public Research Organisations
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 wÃÂnanga. 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)
WÃÂnanga
(with principal campus only)
The following wÃÂnanga are those who have been granted Crown entity status; there are many that have not.
Independent statutory entities
Public Finance Act Schedule 4 organisations
- Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust
- Asia New Zealand Foundation
- 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
- MÃÂori Trustee
- 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
- NgÃÂi 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
The state enterprises are listed in Schedule 1 of the State-owned Enterprises Act.
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. Local authorities may set up various council-controlled organisations for specific purposes.
Regional councils
City and district councils
Historic organisations
- New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation
- New Zealand Forest Service
- HortResearch and Crop and Food were merged in 2008 to form Plant & Food Research
- Department of Island Territories
- Department of Labour
- Department of Lands and Survey
- Land Transport New Zealand (merged into the NZ Transport Agency) (Ikiiki Whenua Aotearoa)
- Department of Industries and Commerce
- Marine Department
- Mines Department
- Transfund New Zealand (Arataki Aotearoa) (merged into Land Transport New Zealand)
- Traffic Safety Service (absorbed into New Zealand Police)
- New Zealand Post Office (corporatised in 1987 as New Zealand Post, PostBank and Telecom)
- State Hydro Department, became New Zealand Electricity Department, then NZE, then ECNZ
- Productivity Commission (Te KÃ
Âmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa)
- New Zealand Railways Department (corporatised in 1981 as a state-owned enterprise, the New Zealand Railways Corporation, including the infrastructure, which is now trading as KiwiRail)
- Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MoRST) (Te ManatÃ
« PÃ
«taiao)
- Ministry of Works (formerly the Department of Public Works)
- Department of Social Welfare (restructured in 1999)
- Income Support Service became Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ) (Te ManatÃ
« Whakahiato Ora)
- Children, Young Persons and their Families Agency became Child Youth and Family Service (Te Tari Awhina i te Tamaiti, te Rangatahi, tae atu ki te WhÃÂnau)
- the remainder of core services became part of the Ministry of Social Policy.
- New Zealand Wildlife Service (a division of Internal Affairs)
- Solid Energy New Zealand Limited (Went into administration and assets sold in 2015)
- Te Aka Whai Ora (MÃÂori Health Authority)
- Terralink NZ Limited (privatised in 2001 and renamed Terralink_International, then merged with Property IQ to form CoreLogic NZ in 2014)
- Learning Media Limited (Te Pou Taki KÃ
Ârero)
- IRL (Industrial Research Limited) Web page (Te Taihu PÃ
«taiao) (Now part of Callaghan Innovation)
- Institute For Social Research and Development Limited (Wellington) was disestablished in 1995 after failing to achieve financial viability.
- Transit New Zealand (Ararau Aotearoa) operated from 1989 to 2008.
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