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Public Audit Act 2001

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Schedule 2: Specific public entities not falling within any class

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"Public groups that don't fit into other categories"

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The Public Audit Act 2001 has a list of public entities that do not fit into any specific group. You can find this list in the schedule called 'Specific public entities not falling within any class'. This schedule is empowered by section 5(1)(d) of the Public Audit Act 2001. It includes entities like the Armed Forces Canteen Council and the Auckland Aotea Centre Board of Management.

The list has many other entities, including the Building Practitioners Board, the Canterbury Museum Trust Board, and the Chartered Professional Engineers Council. Some entities are defined in other laws, such as Te Mātāwai, which is defined in section 7 of the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017, and Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi, which is defined in section 9 of the Te Ture Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua 2025/Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Act 2025. The New Zealand Police and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand are also on the list.

Other entities on the list include the Valuers Registration Board, the Veterans’ Medical Research Trust Fund, and the Workforce development councils established under section 363 of the Education and Training Act 2020. The list is part of the Public Audit Act 2001, which is a law that helps keep track of how public entities use their money and resources.

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2Specific public entities not falling within any class Empowered by s 5(1)(d)

Armed Forces Canteen Council

Auckland Aotea Centre Board of Management

Building Practitioners Board

Canterbury Museum Trust Board

Chartered Professional Engineers Council

Costley Training Institution

Council of Legal Education

Dempsey Trust

Electrical Workers Registration Board

Engineering Associates Registration Board

Export Guarantee Office

Fishing Industry Board

Game Animal Council

Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga

Maori Purposes Fund Board

Maori Soldiers Trust

Māori Television Service

Masterton Trust Lands Trust

Montfort Trimble Foundation

Museum of Transport and Technology

New Zealand Council for Educational Research

New Zealand Defence Force

New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority

New Zealand Registered Architects’ Board

New Zealand Vice Chancellors’ Committee

Ngarimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund

Ngāti Whakaue Education Endowment Trust Board

Nursing Council of New Zealand

Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives

Otago Museum Trust Board

Pacific Islands Polynesian Education Foundation

Parliamentary Counsel Office

Parliamentary Service

Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board

Poutama Trust

Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Riccarton Bush Trustees

Selwyn Plantation Board Limited

Taranaki Scholarships Trust Board

Taratahi Training Centre (Wairarapa) Trust Board

Te Mātāwai

Te Pou Tupua, as defined in section 7 of the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017

Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi, as defined in section 9 of Te Ture Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua 2025/the Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Act 2025

Te Urewera Board as defined in section 7 of the Te Urewera Act 2014

The board established under Part 7 of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009

The New Zealand Police

Tokelau Administration

Valuers Registration Board

Veterans’ Medical Research Trust Fund

Waitangi National Trust Board

West Coast Development Trust

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

Workforce development councils established under section 363 of the Education and Training Act 2020

Notes
  • Schedule 2 A workforce development council established under section 479 of the Education Act 1989: repealed, on , by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020 (2020 No 38).
  • Schedule 2 Architects Education and Registration Board: repealed, on , by section 85(c) of the Registered Architects Act 2005 (2005 No 38).
  • Schedule 2 Arts boards: repealed, on , by section 27 of the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Act 2014 (2014 No 1).
  • Schedule 2 Building Practitioners Board: inserted, on , by section 414 of the Building Act 2004 (2004 No 72).
  • Schedule 2 Carter Observatory: repealed, on , by section 12 of the Carter Observatory Act Repeal Act 2010 (2010 No 34).
  • Schedule 2 Chartered Professional Engineers Council: inserted, on , by section 69(2) of the Chartered Professional Engineers of New Zealand Act 2002 (2002 No 17).
  • Schedule 2 Electricity Ashburton Limited: repealed, on , by section 22(2)(a) of the Electricity Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 40).
  • Schedule 2 Engineers Registration Board: repealed, on , by section 75(4) of the Chartered Professional Engineers of New Zealand Act 2002 (2002 No 17).
  • Schedule 2 Game Animal Council: inserted, on , by section 41(2) of the Game Animal Council Act 2013 (2013 No 98).
  • Schedule 2 Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga: inserted, on , by section 107 of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 (2014 No 26).
  • Schedule 2 Māori Health Authority: repealed, on , by section 43 of the Pae Ora (Disestablishment of Māori Health Authority) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 5).
  • Schedule 2 Māori Television Service: inserted, on , by section 60 of the Māori Television Service (Te Aratuku Whakaata Irirangi Māori) Act 2003 (2003 No 21).
  • Schedule 2 Maori Trustee: repealed, on , by section 30(1) of the Māori Trustee Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 12).
  • Schedule 2 Montfort Trimble Foundation: inserted, on , by section 26 of the Masterton District Council (Montfort Trimble Foundation) Act 2003 (2003 No 5 (L)).
  • Schedule 2 National Māori Entity: repealed, on , by section 6 of the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act 2023 (2023 No 68).
  • Schedule 2 New Zealand Historic Places Trust: repealed, on , by section 107 of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 (2014 No 26).
  • Schedule 2 New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute: repealed, on , by section 17(c) of the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute Vesting Act 2020 (2020 No 37).
  • Schedule 2 New Zealand Registered Architects’ Board: inserted, on , by section 82(2) of the Registered Architects Act 2005 (2005 No 38).
  • Schedule 2 Otago Power Limited: repealed, on , by section 22(2)(b) of the Electricity Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 40).
  • Schedule 2 Overseas Investment Commission: repealed, on , by section 75 of the Overseas Investment Act 2005 (2005 No 82).
  • Schedule 2 Patriotic and Canteen Funds Board: repealed, on , by section 22 of the Patriotic and Canteen Funds Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 65).
  • Schedule 2 Regenerate Christchurch: repealed, on , by section 18(2) of the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 27).
  • Schedule 2 Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind: repealed, on , by section 28(1) of the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Act 2002 (2002 No 3 (P)).
  • Schedule 2 Survey Board of New Zealand: repealed, on , by section 68(1) of the Cadastral Survey Act 2002 (2002 No 12).
  • Schedule 2 Te Mātāwai: inserted, on , by section 50 of Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 2016/the Māori Language Act 2016 (2016 No 17).
  • Schedule 2 Te Pou Tupua: inserted, on , by section 124(2) of the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 (2017 No 7).
  • Schedule 2 Te Tōpuni Kōkōrangi: inserted, on , by section 127 of the Te Ture Whakatupua mō Te Kāhui Tupua 2025/Taranaki Maunga Collective Redress Act 2025 (2025 No 1).
  • Schedule 2 Te Urewera Board: inserted, on , by section 138 of the Te Urewera Act 2014 (2014 No 51).
  • Schedule 2 The board established under Part 7 of the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009: inserted, on , by section 113(1) of the Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Act 2010 (2010 No 37).
  • Schedule 2 Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission: repealed, on , by section 214 of the Maori Fisheries Act 2004 (2004 No 78).
  • Schedule 2 Veterans’ Medical Research Trust Fund: inserted, on , by section 278 of the Veterans’ Support Act 2014 (2014 No 56).
  • Schedule 2 War Pensions Advisory Board: repealed, on , by section 278 of the Veterans’ Support Act 2014 (2014 No 56).
  • Schedule 2 West Coast Development Trust: inserted, on , by clause 3 of the Public Audit (West Coast Development Trust) Order 2002 (SR 2002/17).
  • Schedule 2 Workforce development councils established under section 363 of the Education and Training Act 2020: inserted, on , by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020 (2020 No 38).