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Administrative matters - Chief executive may approve persons to have principal role in developing standards

98: Criteria for approving person

You could also call this:

"Rules for choosing who can make standards"

When the chief executive wants to approve someone to develop standards, they need to check a few things first. The person they're approving needs to be a group, not just one individual. This group should have a mix of different people representing various interests on their board or leadership team.

The chief executive also needs to make sure that the group will be fair and clear about how they make standards. They should know a lot about making standards and be good at it. If the chief executive wants them to do other jobs related to standards, they need to be good at those too.

There's an exception to these rules. If the group already does similar work for another law, and the chief executive thinks this work is relevant to the standards they'll be making, then they don't need to have a mixed group of people on their board.

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Chief executive may approve persons to have principal role in developing standards

98Criteria for approving person

  1. Before approving a person under section 97, the chief executive must be satisfied that the person—

  2. is a body corporate or an unincorporated body, and that the membership of the board or other governing body of the person has a reasonably balanced representation of stakeholder interests; and
    1. will have in place fair and transparent processes for the development of standards; and
      1. has sufficient knowledge, experience, and capability to efficiently—
        1. develop standards; and
          1. carry out an activity referred to in section 99(1) (if the chief executive intends that the terms and conditions of the approval will provide for the person to carry out the activity).

          2. Subsection (1)(a) does not apply to a person if—

          3. they perform a function under another Act that involves recommending, developing, or making any secondary legislation; and
            1. the chief executive considers that the function is relevant to the standards in respect of which they will act.