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Information Gathering and Public Trust Transparency Statement – 26 June 2019 Page 1 of 3
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Information Gathering and Public Trust Transparency Statement – 26 June 2019 Page 1 of 3 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Information Gathering and Public Trust Transparency Statement Purpose The purpose of this statement is to be more transparent with New Zealanders about the kind of information gathering activity that the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) undertakes to give effect to our responsibilities to: protect people, information, places, and our taonga (collections); to ensure regulatory compliance; and to ensure the privacy, safety and security of the public, our visitors and staff. In December 2018 the State Services Commission issued the Model Standard for Information Gathering and Public Trust1 under Section 57(4) of the State Sector Act. This applies across the State Sector, including to Te Papa as an Autonomous Crown Entity. The Model Standard relates to information gathering associated with regulatory compliance, law enforcement and security and health and safety requirements. The purpose of the Model Standard is to ensure that government agencies use their authorities to undertake surveillance and information gathering lawfully, and in a way that respects and protects the rights and privacy of people. Transparency Statement This transparency statement explains how we collect, use and share information gathered about members of the public or other entities (directly or indirectly) in accordance with the Information Gathering Model Standards. Te Papa as the National Museum does not have any law enforcement and regulatory compliance or enforcement responsibilities, and thus does not gather any information for these purposes. -
Chapter 2. Public Sector Whistleblower Protection Laws in OECD Countries
2. PUBLIC SECTOR WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION LAWS IN OECD COUNTRIES – 39 Chapter 2. Public sector whistleblower protection laws in OECD countries The purpose of whistleblower protection is to protect individuals from being exposed and retaliated against for disclosing misconduct. Despite the common aim of whistleblower protection systems, the disclosure processes in place in OECD countries vary. This chapter analyses the varying elements and protections that countries have put in place and how they apply throughout disclosure processes, including: the scope of coverage and subject matter; reporting requirements; channels of reporting; fundamental safeguards, such as anonymity and confidentiality; and the prospect of incentives. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. COMMITTING TO EFFECTIVE WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION © OECD 2016 40 – 2. PUBLIC SECTOR WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION LAWS IN OECD COUNTRIES Upon identifying wrongdoing or the attempt to commit wrongdoing, an employee may not be certain of what to do with the information discovered, where or whom to turn to, and whether they are protected by relevant whistleblower protection mechanisms. Throughout the disclosure process, employees may have reservations about safeguards such as anonymity and confidentiality measures, they may also be incentivised by the prospect of a reward. The multitude of steps along the disclosure process can be daunting and vague, however, if implemented according to whistleblower protection laws, the disclosure process can and should be the first system in line to protect whistleblowers from reprisal. -
Owner's Expectations Manual
Owner’s Expectations Manual Owner’s Owner’s Expectations Manual | Crown Ownership Monitoring | Crown Unit Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit July 2012 © Crown Copyright reserved ISBN 978-0-478-39662-1 (Print) ISBN 978-0-478-39663-8 (Online) This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence. In essence, you are free to copy, distribute and adapt the work, as long as you attribute the work to the Crown and abide by the other licence terms. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/. Please note that no departmental or governmental emblem, logo or Coat of Arms may be used in any way which infringes any provision of the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981. Attribution to the Crown should be in written form and not by reproduction of any such emblem, logo or Coat of Arms. Internet The URL for this document on the Treasury’s Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit’s website at July 2012 is http://www.comu.govt.nz/publications/guidance/owners-expectations-manual/ Persistent URL http://purl.oclc.org/nzt/g-oem Table of Contents What’s New? .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Summary of Significant Updates to the Owner’s Expectations Manual ........................................................................ 5 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... -
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2002/33 Securities Act (Trustee Companies) Exemption Amendment Notice 2002 Pursuant to the Securities Act 1978, the Securities Commission gives the following notice. Contents 1 Title 6 Exemption from sections 33(3) and 2 Commencement 37(3) 3 Amendment to Title of principal 7 Exemption from section 52(1) and notice (3) 4 Interpretation 8 Exemption from section 54 5 Application of notice Notice 1 Title (1) This notice is the Securities Act (Trustee Companies) Exemp tion Amendment Notice 2002. (2) In this notice, the Securities Act (Trustee Companies) Exemp tion Notice 1997 1 is called "the principal notice". I SR 19971270 2 Commencement This notice comes into force on 1 March 2002. 3 Amendment to Title of principal notice Clause 1(1) of the principal notice is amended by omitting the words "Trustee Companies", and substituting the words "Group Investment Funds" . 4 Interpretation (1) Clause 2( 1) of the principal notice is amended by revoking the definition of Fund, and substituting the following definition: 136 Securities Act (Trustee Companies) 200213:1 Exemption Amendment Notice 2002 cl 8 "Fund means a Group Investment Fund established under "(a) section 29 of the Trustee Companies Act 1967; or "(b) section 63 of the Public Trust Act 2001; or "(c) section 42A of the Public Trust Office Act 1957". (2) Clause 2( 1) of the principal notice is amended by revoking the definition of trustee company, and substituting the following definition: "trustee means- "(a) a trustee company within the meaning of the Trustee Companies Act 1967 and that is named in Schedule 1: "(b) Public Trust." 5 Application of notice Clause 2A of the principal notice is amended by revoking subclause (1), and substituting the following subclause: "( 1) This notice applies only to qualifying participatory securities for which a prospectus is registered on or before 31 March 2002. -
The "Public Trust" As It Is Used in Article VI
THE "PUBIC TRUST" JenniferAnglim Kreder ABSTRACT It seems as if no one really knows the meaning of the term "public Trust" used in the Religious Test Clause of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution. 7iis Article is the first scholarly attempt to define the term by exploring historical evidence pre-dating the nation's jounding through the Constitution's adoption, including British and colonial trust law that influenced the Founders' conception of the term. Today, one can find the term used only in the cases and scholarship concerning environmental law, tax law and museum law. After a thorough analysis of the old and new sources, this Article proposes the following original definition of term "public Trust": "Any entity given special privilege by the government, beyond the simple grant of a state corporate charteroften coupled with state or federal tax waivers, so long as that entity is legally obligated to engage in conduct that could traditionally have been performed by the government itself for the public's benefit." TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..................................... ..... 1426 I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ARTICLE VI............ .... 1428 A. The Stuart Period & Colonial Era......... ............... 1429 B. The Foundingand Early Republic ................... 1430 C. InterpretationalFoundations .................. ..... 1434 D. Fiduciary Underpinnings .......................... 1438 II. MODERN SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PUBLIC TRUST....... ..... 1440 A. Judicially Recognized Trusts and Non-Profit Corporations.. 1441 B. EnvironmentalRegulation ......................... 1443 1. Historical Origins of the Environmental "PublicTrust * Professor of Law, Salmon P. Chase College of Law. The author wishes to disclose that she has done a limited amount of legal work for American Atheists, Inc., including in Ameri- can Atheists, Inc. -
Impeachment and Removal
Impeachment and Removal Jared P. Cole Legislative Attorney Todd Garvey Legislative Attorney October 29, 2015 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R44260 Impeachment and Removal Summary The impeachment process provides a mechanism for removal of the President, Vice President, and other “civil Officers of the United States” found to have engaged in “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The Constitution places the responsibility and authority to determine whether to impeach an individual in the hands of the House of Representatives. Should a simple majority of the House approve articles of impeachment specifying the grounds upon which the impeachment is based, the matter is then presented to the Senate, to which the Constitution provides the sole power to try an impeachment. A conviction on any one of the articles of impeachment requires the support of a two-thirds majority of the Senators present. Should a conviction occur, the Senate retains limited authority to determine the appropriate punishment. Under the Constitution, the penalty for conviction on an impeachable offense is limited to either removal from office, or removal and prohibition against holding any future offices of “honor, Trust or Profit under the United States.” Although removal from office would appear to flow automatically from conviction on an article of impeachment, a separate vote is necessary should the Senate deem it appropriate to disqualify the individual convicted from holding future federal offices of public trust. Approval of such a measure requires only the support of a simple majority. Key Takeaways of This Report The Constitution gives Congress the authority to impeach and remove the President, Vice President, and other federal “civil officers” upon a determination that such officers have engaged in treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. -
Contents Page for Jenny Cassie's Crown Entities Act Seminars
4. CAPACITY AND POWERS OF CROWN ENTITIES Jenny Cassie, Barrister Introduction This chapter discusses the provisions of the Crown Entities Act which relate to the capacity and exercise of powers of statutory entities and, to a more limited degree, Crown entity companies and Crown entity subsidiaries. The commentary covers the generic model as covered by the Act and does not, for example, cover the exercise of powers by statutory officers whose powers must be exercised independently of an entity.72 Legal status Statutory entities, Crown entity companies and Crown entity subsidiaries are all bodies corporate and are therefore legal entities which exist separately from their members, office holders, employees and, importantly, the Crown.73 This separation is illustrated most acutely by the position of statutory entities that are corporations sole. A single person, for example, the Privacy Commissioner, may have corporate status by virtue of being declared a corporation sole. This enables an artificial line to be drawn between the person as an individual and the office as a legal person. Crown entity status contrasts with Departments, which are legally part of the Crown. Departments, having no separate legal status, can be established and disestablished by the Government by executive action. By contrast, a “statutory entity” can only be established or disestablished by legislation. Setting up Crown entity companies requires registration of a company with Ministers as shareholders.74 Capacity of statutory entities “Capacity” describes the legal ability or qualification of an entity to do something. The general rule regarding the capacity of corporations is that:75 The powers of a corporation created by statute are limited and circumscribed by the statutes which regulate it and extend no further than is expressly stated therein, or is necessarily and properly required for carrying into effect the purposes of its incorporation, or may be fairly regarded as incidental to, or consequential on, those things which the legislature has authorised. -
Public Offices Subject to the Public Records Act 2005 Published September 2019 Arranged by Name of Organisation in A-Z Order
September 2019 Public Offices subject to the Public Records Act 2005 Published September 2019 Arranged by name of organisation in A-Z order. Name of organisation Organisational category Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) Crown agent Accreditation Council Autonomous Crown entity AgResearch Limited Crown Research Institute Airways Corporation of New Zealand Limited State-Owned Enterprise Animal Control Products Limited (Pestoff) State-Owned Enterprise Ara Institute of Canterbury Tertiary education institution Armed Forces Canteen Council Executive branch of Government Arts Council of New Zealand (Creative NZ) Autonomous Crown entity AsureQuality Limited State-Owned Enterprise Auckland DHB District Health Board Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Tertiary education institution Bay of Plenty DHB District Health Board Broadcasting Commission (NZ On Air) Autonomous Crown entity Broadcasting Standards Authority Independent Crown Entity Callaghan Innovation Crown agent Callaghan Innovation Research Limited Crown entity subsidiary Canterbury DHB District Health Board Capital and Coast DHB District Health Board Central Regions' Technical Advisory Services Limited (TAS) Crown entity subsidiary Part of the Department of Internal Affairs Printed copies are uncontrolled 1 September 2019 Children's Commissioner Independent Crown entity Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand Crown agent Commerce Commission Independent Crown entity Commercial Fisheries Services (FishServe)[Approved service Approved service delivery delivery organisation 2013-2023] -
Report: the Role of Evidence in Policy Formation and Implementation
OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation A report from the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor September 2013 “[An] important role that public servants play is to help Ministers and the community in general to understand the options and choices they have. It is too easy, perhaps even negligent; to leave Ministers to make decisions with insufficient information, without the best possible evidence, and without learning from what has gone before. And the point here is that there is rarely something where the issues are clear-cut, or where choices don’t have to be made.” “The policy advice that informs these decisions must be built on a strong foundation. We have to make sure what looks like a good policy idea is backed up by solid evidence and quality analysis.” Excerpts from a speech by Gabriel Makhlouf, Secretary to the Treasury, April 2013 Part of the Better Public Services Initiative of the State Services Commission Office of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee PO Box 108-117, Symonds Street, Auckland 1150, New Zealand Telephone: +64 9 923 6318 Website: www.pmcsa.org.nz Email: [email protected] ISBN 978-0-477-10404-3 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-477-10405-0 (PDF) The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation Letter to the Prime Minister September 2013 The Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key Parliament Buildings WELLINGTON 6160 Dear Prime Minister Re: Evidence in the formation and evaluation of policy You have asked me to advise on how New Zealand’s ministries and agencies might improve their use of evi- dence in both the formation and evaluation of policy. -
Crown Entities
Crown Entities: Categories and Principles A report for the State Services Commission 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 This report has been prepared by McKinlay Douglas Limited (“MDL”) for the State Services Commission (“the SSC”) as part of its Whole of Government Perspective Series. 1.2 The brief for the report was in two parts: ∗ Identification of categories and types of Crown entities and identification of and placement within categories of all Crown entities established to date. This should include information on the Crown entities whose design conforms with the type/categories and those that include aspects of design that are different in some way. ∗ The principles for establishing a Crown entity. In other words what is the thinking that underpinned decisions on whether an agency would be a Crown entity, department or indeed some other body. To what extent is there consistency in the applications of these principles to the design of Crown entities. 1.3 As work on this paper proceeded, MDL arrived at the view that, if anything was to be categorised, it should be the interests of the Crown rather than Crown entities as such. The early part of this paper compares the implications, for the Crown, of categorising entities as opposed to categorising Crown interests and draws out the arguments in favour the latter approach. This includes a discussion of what are seen to be key interests of the Crown including: ∗ Ownership as a residual claimant interest ∗ Ownership as a means of pursuing other policy goals (for example retaining critical mass in certain activities) ∗ Purchase interest. -
List of Crown Entity Subsidiaries (As at 2018)
List of Crown Entity Subsidiaries (as at 2018) Crown Entity Subsidiary Name Sector Description Crown Entity - Crown Research Institutes AgResearch (Johnes Disease Research Consortium Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Limited) AgResearch (Pastoral Genomics Consortia) Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes AgResearch (PPGR Consortia) Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Agresearch (USA) Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Biopolymer Network Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Celentis Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Covita Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Cropseed Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes EcoConnect Ltd Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Enviro-Mark Solutions Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes ESR Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Geological Risk Ltd Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Geological Surveys (NZ) Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes GNS Science International Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Grasslanz Technology Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Isoscan Food Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Isoscan Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes NIWA Natural Solutions Ltd Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes NIWA Vessel Management Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Phytagro New Zealand Limited Crown Entities - Crown Research Institutes Sala Street Holdings Limited -
Keeping the Public Trust
Keeping the Public Trust 1 Keeping the Public Trust Keeping the Public Trust The Value of Values in Government Wallace 0. Keene & Raymon R. Bruce, Ph.D. 2 Keeping the Public Trust - In the Memory of Wallace O. Keene - Published and Printed in the United States of America Copyright ©2000 by Wallace Keene & Raymon Bruce. Copyright under International, Pan American and Universal Copyright Conventions. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any form or by any means, electrical or mechanical, including photocopying and recording or by an informational storage and retrieval system—except for brief quotations (not to exceed 1,000 words) in a review or professional work—without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover design by Kathleen Myers Cover photograph by Focused Images Photography, Inc. Reston, Virginia For information and copies: Keene Ideas, inc. 7238 Wapello Drive, Derwood, Maryland 20855-2717 Phone: (301) 340-9096 Email: [email protected] The authors are indebted to the corps of federal Inspectors General, which provided the source news clippings for this booklet. We are also indebted to the several reviewers who commented on the document, including former federal executives Christine Carrico and Larry Slagle. A very special thanks to Wiley Miller and Universal Press Syndicate, for their permission to use the cartoons from the comic strip NON SEQUITUR©. It is not so much that we agree with the message that is conveyed, rather it is that the cartoons give evidence to very clear public perceptions that can not be ignored. 3 Keeping the Public Trust Table of Contents Page Preface ........................................................