A Crown entity (from the Commonwealth term Crown ) is an organisation that forms part of New Zealand 's state sector established under the Crown Entities Act 2004 , a unique umbrella governance and accountability statute. The Crown Entities Act is based on the corporate model where the governance of the organisation is split from the management of the organisation.
4-627: Sport New Zealand ( Sport NZ ) ( MΔori : Ihi Aotearoa ) is a New Zealand Crown entity responsible for governing sport and recreation in New Zealand . Their subsidiary High Performance Sport New Zealand deals with elite athletes . The principal governing legislation of Sport NZ is the Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002. As a Crown entity, it is responsible to the Minister of Sport and Recreation via its board of directors. Section 8 of
8-527: Is the subsidiary of Sport New Zealand responsible for governing New Zealand's high performance sport programme. It was formed in 2011 following the merger of Sport New Zealand's high performance unit with the country's two academies of sport. Crown entity Crown entities come under the following types: Crown entities can be contrasted with other New Zealand public sector organisational forms: departments of state , state-owned enterprises , offices of Parliament and sui generis organisations like
12-832: The Reserve Bank . Under the Crown Entities Act, ministers are required to "oversee and manage" the Crown's interests in the Crown entities within their portfolio (sections 27 and 88). The board of the entity has the key role in ensuring the entity is achieving results within budget. This is done by a monitoring department on behalf of the minister unless other arrangements for monitoring are made. Monitoring departments make explicit agreements with their minister, setting out what monitoring they will undertake and how they will do it. Crown entity boards should also facilitate clear and transparent monitoring, for example, by providing
16-675: The Act sets out the functions of Sport New Zealand as the following: In 2022, Sport NZ introduced its "Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport" to regulate the participation of transgender people in competitive sports. In October 2024, Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop instructed Sport NZ to review its 2022 Guiding Principles, emphasising that they were supposed to be voluntary rather than mandatory. High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ)
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