New Zealand Legislation: Acts

40 Requirements for information on future operating intentions

• The information required under section 38 must set out and explain for the period to which it relates—

  • (a) the nature and scope of the department's functions and intended operations; and

  • (b) the specific impacts, outcomes, or objectives that the department seeks to achieve or to contribute to through its operations; and

  • (c) how the department intends to—

    • (i) perform its functions and conduct its operations to achieve those impacts, outcomes, or objectives; and

    • (ii) effectively manage those functions and operations within a changeable operating environment; and

  • (d) the main measures and standards that the department intends to use to assess and report on matters relating to the department's future performance, including, without limitation, the following matters:

    • (i) the impacts, outcomes, or objectives achieved or contributed to by the department (including possible unintended impacts or negative outcomes):

    • (ii) the cost-effectiveness of the interventions that the department delivers or administers:

    • (iii) the department's organisational health and capability to perform its functions and conduct its operations effectively; and

  • (e) any other matters that—

    • (i) are reasonably necessary to achieve an understanding of the department's operating intentions and direction; or

    • (ii) may be specified by the Minister or the responsible Minister for the purposes of subparagraph (i).

  Section 40: substituted, on 25 January 2005, by section 16 of the Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113).