List of public sector organisations in New Zealand

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.[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

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Offices of Parliament

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State services departments

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Public service departments

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

Departmental agencies

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  • replaces the Office of Ethnic Communities (previously Ethnic Affairs) that was part of Internal Affairs[6]

Interdepartmental executive boards

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State services organisations outside the core public service

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Reserve Bank of New Zealand

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Crown entities

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Crown agents
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Autonomous crown entities
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Independent crown entities
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Crown entity companies
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Public Research Organisations
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School boards of trustees
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Tertiary education institutions
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State-owned tertiary institutions consist of universities, colleges of education (teachers' training colleges), polytechnics (institutes of technology) and wānanga. In addition there are numerous non-state-owned private training establishments.

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

Institutes of technology and polytechnics
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(with principal campus only)

Wānanga
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(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

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Public Finance Act Schedule 4 organisations

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Trusts
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Bodies corporate
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Other
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Public Finance Act Schedule 4a companies

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State-owned enterprises

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The state enterprises are listed in Schedule 1 of the State-owned Enterprises Act.[9]

Local government

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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

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This list of regional councils includes the unitary authorities of Auckland, Gisborne, Tasman, Nelson, and Marlborough, which act as both regional councils and territorial authorities in one. It does not include the Chatham Islands Council, which is officially considered a district council despite holding some (but not all) of the powers of a regional council.

City and district councils

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Historic organisations

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See also

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References

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  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. 1 2 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. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  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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