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Children’s Act 2014

Strategy for improving children’s well-being and oranga tamariki action plan - Effect and accountabilities

13: Accountabilities

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When it comes to the well-being of children, you need to know who is in charge. The Minister of the Crown is accountable for making sure the strategy to improve the well-being of children is working. They are responsible to Parliament and the Executive. The Minister is also in charge of the oranga tamariki action plan. The chief executive of each children's agency is accountable to this Minister. This does not change how other laws, like the Public Finance Act 1989, work.

If there is a conflict with another law, this law overrides it. The responsibilities of the Ministers and chief executives are only changed if it is necessary to make this law work, and as affected by section 12(1) of this Act.

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Part 1Strategy for improving children’s well-being and oranga tamariki action plan
Effect and accountabilities

13Accountabilities

  1. For the purposes of the operation of the legislative and executive branches of Government,—

  2. in the adopting and implementation of the strategy for improving the well-being of children, the responsible Minister is the Minister of the Crown who is accountable, both to Parliament and the Executive; and
    1. in any matter relating to the oranga tamariki action plan, the plan Minister is the Minister of the Crown who is accountable, both to Parliament and the Executive; and
      1. in any matter relating to the oranga tamariki action plan, the chief executive of each of the children’s agencies is accountable to the plan Minister.

        1. Subsection (1)—

        2. does not limit or affect—
          1. section 12(1) of this Act; or
            1. the operation of the Public Finance Act 1989; or
              1. the independence of the Commissioner of Police (as affirmed by sections 8(e) and 16(2) of the Policing Act 2008); but
              2. overrides any other law to the contrary.

                1. A duty, function, or power of the responsible Minister or the plan Minister, or of the chief executive of a children’s agency, is affected by this Part only to the extent necessary to give effect to subsection (1) (as overridden by section 12(1)).

                Notes
                • Section 13: replaced, on , by section 8 of the Children's Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 58).