Functions
Unlike some other government bodies the Ministry does not have a single piece of legislation which covers its operation: its role is spread across dozens of current acts and regulations. These include:
- Administering the following Orders in Council:
- Canterbury Earthquake (Historic Places Act) Order 2011
- Television New Zealand (Separation of Transmission Business) Order 2003
- Historic Places Trust Elections Regulations 1993
- Administering the following Acts of Parliament:
- Broadcasting Act 1989
- Television New Zealand Act 2003
- Protected Objects Act 1975
- Historic Places Act 1993
- National War Memorial Act 1992
- Radio New Zealand Act 1995
- Anzac Day Act 1966
- New Zealand Film Commission Act 1978
- Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981
- Archives, Culture, and Heritage Reform Act 2000
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Act 1992
- Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Act 1994
- New Zealand Film Commission Act 1978
- Consultation responsibilities under many acts relating the Treaty of Waitangi settlements.
- Port Nicholson Block (Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika) Claims Settlement Act 2009
- Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi Claims Settlement Act 2005
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Famous quotes containing the word functions:
“Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One of the most highly valued functions of used parents these days is to be the villains of their children’s lives, the people the child blames for any shortcomings or disappointments. But if your identity comes from your parents’ failings, then you remain forever a member of the child generation, stuck and unable to move on to an adulthood in which you identify yourself in terms of what you do, not what has been done to you.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)