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.
5-639: Maritime New Zealand (New Zealand Maritime Safety Authority) is a Crown entity and also a state maritime safety authority responsible for protecting the maritime transport sequence and marine environment within New Zealand and maintaining safety and security. They define their vision as: "a maritime environment with minimum deaths, accidents, incidents and pollution as part of an integrated and sustainable transport system”. Maritime New Zealand supports people by providing guidance and advice about Seafarer Certifications as well. A maritime authority called
10-510: The Maritime Transport Act 1994 . One of its key responsibilities is the operation and maintenance of the lighthouses around New Zealand's coastline. Crown entities 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
15-832: 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
20-698: The Marine Board was originally established in 1862 and controlled by the Customs Department until near the end of the nineteenth century, when it was renamed the Marine Department. In 1907 the Marine Department acquired the 805 ton Royal Navy gun boat HMS Sparrow . This was converted into a training ship and renamed NZS Amokura . Over the next 14 years 527 boys trained in Amokura , 25 of them going on to naval service and most of
25-613: The others into the merchant marine. In 1972 the Marine Department was absorbed into the Ministry of Transport . In 1993 a Crown entity was established and called the Maritime Safety Authority before being subsequently rebranded as Maritime New Zealand in July 2005. The current entity employs approximately 190 staff. It is managed by a five-member board appointed by the responsible minister (Minister of Transport) under
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