List of public sector organisations in New Zealand

Public sector organisations in New Zealand comprise the state sector organisations plus those of local government.

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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

Offices of Parliament
  • Office of the Controller and Auditor-General (Tumuaki o te Mana Arotake)
    • Audit New Zealand
  • Office of the Ombudsmen (Nga Kaitiaki Mana Tangata)
  • Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (Te Kaitiaki Taiao a Te Whare Pāremata Aotearoa)

Public service departments

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

Departmental agencies
  • Cancer Control Agency (Te Aho o Te Kahu)
  • Independent Children's Monitor (Aroturuki Tamariki)
  • National Emergency Management Agency (e Rākau Whakamarumaru)
  • Ministry for Ethnic Communities (Te Tari Mātāwaka)
  • replaces the Office of Ethnic Communities (previously Ethnic Affairs) that was part of Internal Affairs[6]
  • Office for Māori Crown Relations–Te Arawhiti
  • Social Wellbeing Agency (Toi Hau Tāngata)
  • Whaikaha - Ministry of Disabled People

Interdepartmental executive boards
  • Border Executive Board
  • Family Violence Executive Board
  • Strategic Planning Reform Board

State services organisations outside the core public service
  • New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) (Te Ope Kaatua o Aotearoa)
    • New Zealand Cadet Forces (Te Taua Tauira o Aotearoa)
      • Air Training Corps
      • New Zealand Cadet Corps
      • Sea Cadet Corps
    • NZDF armed forces
    • Veterans' Affairs New Zealand (Te Tira Ahu Ika a Whiro) (semi-autonomous body)
  • Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives (Te Tari o te Manahautū o te Whare Māngai)
    • Reporting Services (Hansard)
  • Parliamentary Counsel Office (New Zealand) (Te Tari Tohutohu Paremata)
  • Parliamentary Service[7][3] (includes the Parliamentary Library)
  • Parliamentary Service Commission
    • Visitor Services
  • New Zealand Police (Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa)

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Crown entities
Main article: Crown entities
Crown agents
Autonomous crown entities
  • Accreditation Council
  • Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand)
  • Broadcasting Commission (New Zealand on Air) (Irirangi Te Motu)
  • Government Superannuation Fund Authority
  • Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation (Te Kaiatiaki Tahua Penihana Kaumātua o Aotearoa)
  • Heritage New Zealand (Pouhere Taonga)
  • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • New Zealand Artificial Limb Board (Peke Waihanga)
  • New Zealand Film Commission (Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga)
  • New Zealand Infrastructure Commission (Te Waihanga)
  • New Zealand Lotteries Commission
  • New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (Te Tira Pūoro o Aotearoa)
  • Public Trust
  • Retirement Commission (Te Ara Ahunga Ora)
  • Te Māngai Pāho (Maori Broadcasting Funding Agency)
  • Te Taura Whiri I Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Commission)
Independent crown entities
  • Broadcasting Standards Authority (Te Mana Whanonga Kaipāho)
  • Children and Young People's Commission (Mana Mokopuna)
  • Climate Change Commission (He Pou a Rangi)
  • Commerce Commission (Te Konihana Tauhokohoko)
  • Criminal Cases Review Commission (Te Kāhui Tātari Ture)
  • Drug Free Sport New Zealand
  • Electoral Commission (Te Kaitiaki Take Kōwhiri)
  • Electricity Authority (Te Komihana Hiko)
  • External Reporting Board (Te Kāwai Ārahi Pūrongo Mōwaho)
  • Financial Markets Authority (Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko)
  • Health and Disability Commissioner (Te Toihau Hauora, Hauātanga)
  • Human Rights Commission (Te Kāhui Tika Tangata)
  • Independent Police Conduct Authority (Mana Whanonga Pirimana Motuhake)
  • Law Commission (Te Aka Matua o te Ture)
  • Mental Health Commission (Te Hiringa Mahara)
  • Office of Film and Literature Classification (Te Mana Whakaatu)
  • Privacy Commissioner (Te Mana Mātāpono Matapu)
  • Productivity Commission (Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa)
  • Takeovers Panel (Te Pae Whitimana)
  • Transport Accident Investigation Commission (Te Kōmihana Tirotiro Aituā Waka)
Crown entity companies
Crown Research Institutes (CRIs)

(with principal campuses)

  • AgResearch (New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture Research Institute Limited) (Ruakura, Hamilton) (Āta mātai, mātai whetū)
  • ESR (Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited) (Porirua) (He Pūtaiao, He Tāngata)
  • Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited) (Rotorua)
  • GNS Science (formerly Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited) (Lower Hutt) (Te Pū Ao)
  • Landcare Research (Landcare Research New Zealand Limited) (Lincoln) (Manaaki Whenua)
  • NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited) (Auckland) (Taihoro Nukurangi)
  • Plant & Food Research (New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited) (Auckland) (Rangahau Ahumāra Kai)
School boards of trustees

See: Education in New Zealand

Tertiary education institutions
Main article: Education in New Zealand § Tertiary education
See also: Tertiary education in New Zealand

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

(with principal campus only)

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

Independent statutory entities
  • Te Aka Whai Ora (Māori Health Authority)
  • Te Mātāwai

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
  • Māori 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
  • Ngāi 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.[9]

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.[10] Local authorities may set up various council-controlled organisations for specific purposes.

Regional councils
Main article: Regions of New Zealand

City and district councils
Main article: Territorial authorities of New Zealand

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
  • 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 Manatū Pūtaiao)
  • 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 Manatū 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 Whānau)
    • 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)[11]
  • Terralink NZ Limited
  • Learning Media Limited (Te Pou Taki Kōrero)
  • IRL (Industrial Research Limited) Web page (Te Taihu Pūtaiao) (Now part of Callaghan Innovation)
  • Institute For Social Research and Development Limited (Wellington). Disestablished in 1995 after failing to achieve financial viability.

See also
  • Centre for Strategic Studies New Zealand
  • New Zealand Cabinet (Te Rūnanga o te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa)
  • Institute of Public Administration New Zealand

References
  1. State Services Commission Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Office of the Clerk of the House of representatives Act 1988 (Retrieved 25 January 2015)
  3. the Parliamentary Service Act 2000 (Retrieved 25 January 2015)
  4. State Services Commission Archived 22 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "NHRP – Natural Hazards Research Platform". Retrieved 10 March 2015. 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. "History of the Ministry for Ethnic Communities" (PDF). Ministry for Ethnic Communities. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  7. "Parliamentary Service". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  8. "New Zealand's central government organisations". Public Service Commission. 8 August 2022. Archived from the original on 9 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  9. "Schedule 1 – State enterprises". State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986. Parliamentary Counsel Office.
  10. "Local Government Sector". Local Government New Zealand. Archived from the original on 24 October 2009.
  11. "Solid Energy announces voluntary administration ahead of sale". Stuff.
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