(1) There is hereby established a museum to be called the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

(2) The Museum shall incorporate the National Art Gallery and the National Museum existing immediately before the commencement of this Act.

(1) There is hereby constituted a board to be called the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Board.

(2) The Board is a Crown entity for the purposes of section 7 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

(3) The Crown Entities Act 2004 applies to the Board except to the extent that this Act expressly provides otherwise.

(4) Members of the Board are the board for the purposes of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

(1) The principal functions of the Board are—

• (a) to control and maintain the Museum:

• (b) to collect works of art and items relating to history and the natural environment:

• (c) to act as an accessible national depository for collections of art and items relating to history and the natural environment:

• (d) to develop, conserve, and house securely the collections of art and items relating to history and the natural environment in the Board’s care:

• (e) to exhibit, or make available for exhibition by other public art galleries, museums, and allied organisations, such material from its collections as the Board from time to time determines:

• (f) to conduct research into any matter relating to its collections or associated areas of interest and to assist others in such research:

• (g) to provide an education service in connection with its collections:

• (h) to disseminate information relating to its collections, and to any other matters relating to the Museum and its functions:

• (i) to co-operate with and assist other New Zealand museums in establishing a national service, and in providing appropriate support to other institutions and organisations holding objects or collections of national importance:

• (j) to co-operate with other institutions and organisations having objectives similar to those of the Board:

• (k) to endeavour to make the best use of the Board’s collections in the national interest:

• (l) to design, construct, and commission any building or structure required by the Museum.

(2) The Minister may not give a direction to the Board in relation to cultural matters.

In performing its functions the Board shall—

• (a) have regard to the ethnic and cultural diversity of the people of New Zealand, and the contributions they have made and continue to make to New Zealand’s cultural life and the fabric of New Zealand society:

• (b) endeavour to ensure both that the Museum expresses and recognises the mana and significance of Maori, European, and other major traditions and cultural heritages, and that the Museum provides the means for every such culture to contribute effectively to the Museum as a statement of New Zealand’s identity:

• (c) endeavour to ensure that the Museum is a source of pride for all New Zealanders.

(1) The Board may receive on behalf of the Museum any money paid to the Museum by the Crown or by any other person, and may allocate the money to the activities of the Museum in any manner that the Board thinks fit.

(2) This section does not limit sections 16 and 17 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

(1) The Board consists of not fewer than 6, nor more than 8, members.

(2) [Repealed]

(3) In making appointments to the Board, the Minister must have regard to the need for members to have knowledge and experience of, and commitment to, the functions of the Board, and the specific activities of the Museum.

(4) This section does not limit section 29 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

(1) The Board must not delegate any power to borrow money that it may have under section 160 or section 162 of the Crown Entities Act 2004.

(2) In other respects, section 73 of the Crown Entities Act 2004 applies.

(1) Any person who is not expressly prohibited from doing so by any enactment, or by the terms of any trust or endowment, may give to the Board any real property, money, or other personal property.

(2) [Repealed]

(3) For the purposes of this section, person includes a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2002, any public body, body corporate, trustee, or unincorporated body of persons.

The Board shall be exempt from the payment of income tax.

The provisions set out in Schedule 1 shall apply in respect of the Board.

(1) No body shall be incorporated or registered under any other enactment or in any other manner, under the following names:

• (a) Museum of New Zealand:

• (b) Te Papa Tongarewa:

• (c) National Art Gallery:

• (d) National Museum:

• (e) any other name that so resembles any name listed in paragraphs (a) to (d), as to be likely to mislead any person.

(2) No person other than the Board shall, either alone or with any other person or persons,—

• (a) trade or carry on business under any name listed in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (1); or

• (b) trade or carry on business under any other name, knowing that that name so resembles any name listed in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (1), as to be likely to mislead any person.

(3) Every person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

(1) The Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial constituted under section 4 of the National Art Gallery, Museum, and War Memorial Act 1972 is hereby dissolved.

(2) No member of the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial shall be entitled to compensation for loss of office resulting from the dissolution of that Board.

Subject to sections 6 and 7 of the National War Memorial Act 1992, on the commencement of this Act all assets and liabilities of the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial shall become assets and liabilities of the Board constituted by section 6 of this Act.

(1) Subject to sections 6 and 7 of the National War Memorial Act 1992, on the commencement of this Act all real and personal property vested in the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial shall vest in the Board constituted by section 6 of this Act, subject to all liabilities, charges, obligations, or trusts affecting that property.

(2) Subject to section 7 of the National War Memorial Act 1992, on the commencement of this Act all money payable to the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial shall become payable to the Board constituted by section 6 of this Act.

(3) Where, on the commencement of this Act, any trust money within the meaning of section 66(1) of the Public Finance Act 1989,—

• (a) is held by the Crown in trust for the Museum of New Zealand project; and

• (b) is, by virtue of an appointment under section 66(4) of the Public Finance Act 1989, managed by the Department of Internal Affairs,—

that money, together with any interest accrued in relation to that money, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, shall, subject both to the terms and conditions determined under section 66(4) of the Public Finance Act 1989 and to section 66(5) of the Public Finance Act 1989, become payable to the Board constituted by section 6 of this Act.

(4) The collection known as the “Oldman Collection” and the collection of 4 murals known as the “Coventry Murals”, both of which collections are vested in the Crown, are hereby vested in the Board constituted by section 6.

(1) The estate of leasehold held by the Crown in the land described in Schedule 2, is hereby vested in the Board constituted by section 6.

(2) The rights held by the Crown at the commencement of this Act under a contract entered into by the Crown with the Wellington Harbour Board and relating to the land to which this subsection applies are hereby vested in the Board constituted by section 6 (the rights of the Wellington Harbour Board under that contract being vested, at the commencement of this Act, in the Wellington City Council).

(3) The land to which subsection (2) applies is all that piece of land containing 1.8965 hectares, more or less, situated in the City of Wellington, being Lot 2, Deposited Plan 60890, Wellington Registry.

(1) The Board and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (in this section called the Academy) shall give effect—

• (a) to the agreement set out in the deed made between the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and the Dominion Museum and the Academy on 27 February 1933, a copy of which is recorded in the Department of Internal Affairs at Wellington as IA1933/216/2, with respect to the provision of accommodation; and

• (b) to any other agreement made between the Academy and either the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and the Dominion Museum or the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial in substitution for, or in variation of, the agreement specified in paragraph (a).

(2) The Board and the Academy may, at any time, agree to vary or cancel the agreement specified in subsection (1)(a) or any agreement referred to in subsection (1)(b).

(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after the commencement of this section, the Board constituted by section 6 shall cause to be prepared final accounts of the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial as at the close of 30 June 1992.

(2) A copy of the final accounts, together with a copy of the report of the Audit Office on those accounts, shall be sent by the Board constituted by section 6 to the Minister of Cultural Affairs and the Minister of Internal Affairs.

(3) A copy of the final accounts, together with a copy of the report of the Audit Office on those accounts, shall be laid before the House of Representatives by the Minister as soon as practicable after their receipt by that Minister.

(1) This section applies to all persons employed, immediately before the commencement of this Act,—

• (a) by the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial; or

• (b) by the Secretary for Internal Affairs to carry out duties at the National Art Gallery or the National Museum; or

• (c) by the Secretary for Internal Affairs in the Department of Internal Affairs’ Museum of New Zealand Project Office.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any provision of the State Sector Act 1988,—

• (a) on the commencement of this Act, every person to whom this section applies shall become a person employed by the Board; and

• (b) the terms and conditions of employment of every person who, by virtue of paragraph (a), becomes a person employed by the Board shall, until varied or until a new contract of employment is entered into, be based on the employment contract that applied to that person immediately before the commencement of this Act in respect of that person’s employment—

  • (i) by the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial; or

  • (ii) by the Secretary for Internal Affairs.

(3) For the purposes of every enactment, law, award, determination, contract, and agreement at any time relating to the employment of a person who, by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (2), becomes a person employed by the Board,—

• (a) the contract of employment that applied immediately before the commencement of this Act in respect of that person’s employment—

  • (i) by the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial; or

  • (ii) by the Secretary for Internal Affairs,—

  shall be deemed not to have been broken by that person having so become a person employed by the Board; and

• (b) any period recognised—

  • (i) by the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial; or

  • (ii) by the Secretary for Internal Affairs,—

  as continuous service with that Board of Trustees or with the Department of Internal Affairs shall be deemed to have been a period of continuous service with the Board.

(4) No person who becomes, by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (2), a person employed by the Board shall be entitled to any payment or other benefit by reason only of that person having ceased to be a person employed—

• (a) by the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial; or

• (b) by the Secretary for Internal Affairs.

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Every reference to the National Art Gallery, the Dominion Museum, or the National Museum in any enactment passed before the commencement of this Act, or in any document executed before that date, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to be a reference to the Museum established by section 5.

Subject to section 18 of the National War Memorial Act 1992, every reference to the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and the Dominion Museum, or to the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, the National Museum, and the National War Memorial in any enactment passed before the commencement of this Act, or in any document executed before that date, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to be a reference to the Board constituted by section 6 of this Act.

The enactments specified in Schedule 3 are hereby amended in the manner indicated in that schedule.

The enactments specified in Schedule 4 are hereby repealed.