This order brings into force certain provisions of the Education and Training (System Reform) Amendment Act 2026 on 1 September 2026.

The provisions being brought into force relate to the Director of Regulation (the Director). Those provisions—

• establish the statutory role of Director in the Education Review Office (the ERO); and

• transfer the regulatory functions for private schools and school hostels from the Secretary for Education (the Secretary) to the Director; and

• transfer the regulatory functions for early childhood education from the Director of Regulation in the Ministry of Education to the Director in the ERO; and

• set out the functions of the Director, the Director’s power to appoint regulatory officers to enter and inspect private schools, and the Director’s ability to delegate their functions, duties, and powers subject to certain restrictions; and

• transfer the power to authorise a suitably qualified person to inspect school hostels from the Minister of Education (the Minister) to the Director; and

• provide for transitional provisions relating to the transfer of private school and hostel functions from the Secretary and the Minister to the Director.