27Responsible Minister's role

1. The role of the responsible Minister is to oversee and manage the Crown's interests in, and relationship with, a statutory entity and to exercise any statutory responsibilities given to the Minister, including functions and powers—

2. in relation to the appointment and removal of members under this subpart:
3. to determine the remuneration of some members under this Part:
4. in relation to the giving of directions to the entity under subpart 1 of Part 3:
5. to review the operations and performance of the entity under subpart 3 of Part 3:
6. to request information from the entity under subpart 3 of Part 3, whether for a review or otherwise:
7. to participate in the process of setting the entity's strategic direction and performance expectations and monitoring the entity's performance under Part 4:
8. in relation to other matters in this Act or another Act.

9. This section does not limit another Minister's relationship with the statutory entity under any other authority.

10. Despite clause 5 of Schedule 6 of the Public Service Act 2020, the responsible Minister may not delegate any power under this Act except as provided in subsection (4).

11. The responsible Minister may delegate the power in section 133 to request information to the chief executive of a monitor (who may subdelegate this delegation to an employee of the monitor or to an individual working for the monitor as a contractor in relation to a function, duty, or power of the monitor).