New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Chief executive to monitor effects of this Act

• (1) The chief executive must, in accordance with this section, monitor, and advise the Minister on, the effects of this Act, including the extent to which this Act is achieving its purpose as set out in section 4 of this Act, and of any additional impacts.

  (2) As soon as practicable after the expiry of the period of 2 years after the date of the commencement of this Act, the chief executive must—

  • (a) review the available data and any trends indicated by that data about the matters referred to in subsection (1); and

  • (b) report the chief executive's findings to the Minister.

  (3) As soon as practicable after receiving the report under subsection (2), the Minister must present a copy of that report to the House of Representatives.

  (4) In this section, chief executive and Minister have the same meanings as in section 2(1) of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989.