New Zealand Legislation: Acts

92 Overview

• (1) This subpart establishes the New Zealand Transport Agency and sets out the objective and functions of the Agency, its operating principles, and related provisions.

  (2) This Act contains a range of accountability provisions relevant to the Agency's functions, duties, and powers under this Act, including the following:

  • (a) section 11, which concerns the annual report on the national land transport fund; and

  • (b) sections 16 and 17, which concern the form and content of regional land transport programmes, and include procedures for the Agency to propose activities or combinations of activities for inclusion in a programme; and

  • (c) section 19D, which concerns notification by the Agency about decisions not to include activities or combinations of activities in a national land transport programme; and

  • (d) section 20D, which concerns the giving of reasons by the Agency for any decision to approve or decline funding for an activity or combination of activities under section 20; and

  • (e) section 89, which concerns the requirement for the Agency to give effect to the GPS when exercising its functions under subpart 1 of Part 2; and

  • (f) section 96, which concerns the Agency’s operating principles, systems, and procedures; and

  • (g) section 100, which concerns the Agency’s statement of intent; and

  • (h) section 101, which concerns monitoring and review of specified activities and procedures of the Agency by the Secretary; and

  • (i) section 109, which concerns the making of regulations requiring the Agency to disclose specified information or report in specified ways.

  (3) This section is by way of explanation only, and if a provision of this or any other Act is inconsistent with this section, the other provision prevails.

  Section 92: substituted, on 1 August 2008, by section 43 of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).