Accessioning TT USE Creating finding aids USE Maintaining information Accountability reporting TT BT Ensuring accountability DEF Reporting outside the organisation as required by established accountability mechanisms, including reporting on obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi SN EXAMPLES: Reporting to Parliament (e.g. Departmental Annual Reports tabled in Parliament, Select Committee reports to Parliament), Cabinet, Ministers, Mayors and Councillors of local bodies Accounting TT USE Ensuring accountability USE Financial management (Internal) USE Managing public finances Accrediting TT UF Approving courses UF Certifying practitioners UF Certifying services UF Credentialling UF Recognising competencies BT Authorising DEF The procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that a service or person is competent to carry out specific tasks to a specific standard; approval of a course which meets a specific standard. Includes refusing to grant accreditation SN EXAMPLES: Accrediting a laboratory, a qualification or a course, accrediting agents engaged on specific tasks for government departments, e.g. Land Information New Zealand agents, accrediting a course. EXCLUDES: recognition of standards, see 'Rulemaking', excludes individuals gaining qualifications, see 'Enabling, Educating, Assessing student achievement' or taking an appeal against refusal to grant accreditation, see 'Upholding the rules, Ensuring compliance, Conducting legal hearings' Excludes revoking accreditation (which may be after taking some form of legal action) see 'Upholding the Rules, Ensuring compliance, Conducting legal hearings' Acquiring land for public works TT USE Establishing infrastructure systems Acquisitions TT USE Centralised purchasing USE Financial management (Internal) Administering consents TT USE Granting consents Administering government TT NT Corporate management (Internal) NT Ensuring accountability NT Implementing Treaty of Waitangi NT Managing public finances NT Providing secretariat NT Running commercial enterprises NT Structuring government DEF Ensuring that the government has the capacity to manage the country, and carrying out the administrative processes associated with managing the country Administration (Internal) TT UF Facilities management UF Property management BT Corporate management (Internal) DEF Managing agency property and facilities and developing and applying administrative procedures and guidelines applying only within the organisation and the normal range of administrative tasks associated with running an organisation Administrative support of other government agencies TT USE Providing secretariat Adopting TT BT Providing protective care for the vulnerable DEF Arranging and approving adoptions Advertising TT USE Publicising Advising TT USE Answering information requests USE Providing advice to community groups USE Providing business advice USE Providing personal advice USE Providing policy briefings Advising ministers TT USE Providing policy briefings Advocating for constituents TT UF Advocating for ratepayers BT Representing constituents Advocating for interest groups TT USE Interest group advocacy Advocating for ratepayers TT USE Advocating for constituents Allocating budget TT USE Managing the budget cycle Allocating resource TT UF Rationing UF Tendering UF Zoning BT Managing consumption of resources DEF Managing access to a resource through processes such as tendering, direct sale, waiting list management or some other means SN Tendering fishing quota, establishing and managing health waiting lists, establishing school zones and applying them to pupil selection, applying mechanisms for shared use of inter-agency inventories Amalgamating government agencies TT USE Restructuring government sector Analysing information TT UF Charting UF Converting data UF Interpreting data UF Mapping UF Quantitative analysis BT Informing DEF Interpreting data/information and converting it into usable content SN INCLUDES: Creating reports, maps, charts, graphs, diagrams and statistical tables Answering information requests TT UF Advising UF Answering Mayorals UF Answering Ministerials UF Answering Prime Ministerials UF Answering queries from the public UF Responding to official information requests BT Providing access to information DEF Providing information in response to specific requests SN EXAMPLES: providing information about electoral matters, providing visitor and public information services, providing adoption information, providing general legal advice (for legal opinions see 'Upholding the rules, Interpreting the law, Developing legal opinions'). Use for answering Official Information Act requests, ministerials, mayorals, and Questions in the House Answering Mayorals TT USE Answering information requests Answering Ministerials TT USE Answering information requests Answering Prime Ministerials TT USE Answering information requests Answering queries from the public TT USE Answering information requests Applying monetary sanctions TT UF Fining BT Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies DEF Collecting fines or legal costs SN EXAMPLES: Collecting fines and court directed costs, collecting reparation and infringement payments Appointing Chief Executives TT USE Appointing to senior or statutory positions Appointing judges to the bench TT USE Appointing to senior or statutory positions Appointing to senior or statutory positions TT UF Appointing Chief Executives UF Appointing judges to the bench UF Recruiting BT Structuring government DEF Appointing to senior positions in an organisation, or to positions on statutory boards, by an external agent such as a Minister of the Crown or State Services Commissioner SN EXAMPLES: Appointments to the New Zealand Conservation Authority by the Minister of Conservation, appointing judges Appropriations TT USE Managing the budget cycle Approving courses TT USE Accrediting Approving policy TT USE Finalising policy Arbitrating TT USE Resolving disputes Archiving TT USE Building informative collections USE Maintaining information Arresting TT USE Detaining Assenting to legislation TT USE Promulgating laws Assessing competency TT USE Assessing student achievement Assessing student achievement TT UF Assessing competency UF Examining student skills UF Testing student skills BT Educating Asset sales TT USE Managing public assets Assisting TT NT Subsidising businesses NT Subsidising communities NT Subsidising individual and family income DEF Providing direct or indirect financial assistance in circumstances of adversity, to individuals, families, communities, business, industries or nations Attracting businesses TT UF Attracting industry UF Regional development BT Facilitating business development DEF Promoting New Zealand, and individual regions, as good places to set up business, and providing incentives to business SN 'Developing the economy' in local government terms, although this has a different meaning at central government level. Attracting industry TT USE Attracting businesses Auditing TT USE Ensuring accountability USE Managing public finances USE Risk management (Internal) Authenticating documents TT UF Certifying documents UF Notarising BT Authorising DEF Legal certification by authorised officers that documents are a true and correct record or have been signed by a specific person SN EXAMPLE: The work of Justices of the Peace in witnessing signatures Authorising TT NT Accrediting NT Authenticating documents NT Granting consents NT Registering DEF (1) Officially recording information and (2) Giving official permission to carry out activities Banning TT USE Censoring USE Enforcing legally required actions Border control TT BT Protecting NT Controlling immigration NT Excluding unwanted organisms RT Monitoring compliance DEF Controlling the passage of people, organisms, primary products and manufactured goods into the country Borrowing by the Crown TT USE Managing public debt Bringing delegated legislation into force TT UF Gazetting delegated legislation BT Developing delegated legislation DEF Carrying out the actions needed to adopt rules which have the force of law but which do not go through Parliament SN INCLUDES: passing, issuing or notifying statutory instruments: regulations, Orders in Council (signed by Governor-General), Codes of Practice, Building Code, local government District Plans, local government by-laws, Special Orders in Council (at local government level), and mandated standards. Includes gazetting or formal publication but not generally making copies available for information, see 'Informing, Providing access to information, Publishing' Budget vote allocation TT USE Managing the budget cycle Building TT UF Constructing public works BT Providing infrastructure DEF Constructing public works, public buildings, public amenities and state or council housing SN INCLUDES: building hospitals and schools, constructing roads, constructing civic and community buildings, constructing parks, constructing playgrounds, constructing huts and tracks, building swimming pools, building libraries, building housing, building dams and power stations. NOTE: developing the energy network itself goes in 'Providing infrastructure, Establishing infrastructure systems', while maintaining the system is dealt with under Providing infrastructure, Maintaining infrastructure systems, Maintaining networks' Building informative collections TT UF Archiving BT Collecting information RT Protecting heritage DEF Systematically gathering available resources to make a focused collection of objects or information SN EXAMPLES: Making collections of written material, visual and audio material, cultural objects, artworks, animal plant and mineral specimens, historical material, artefacts Burying animal remains TT USE Disposing of animal remains Burying human remains TT USE Disposing of human remains Career counselling TT USE Providing career guidance Career planning TT USE Providing career guidance Carrying out surveys TT USE Gathering data Cataloguing TT USE Creating finding aids Censoring TT UF Banning UF Classifying UF Expurgating BT Ensuring public safety Centralised purchasing TT UF Acquisitions UF Collective tendering UF E-procurement UF Procurement UF Tendering BT Managing public finances DEF Collective or externally controlled selection and contracting for goods and services SN EXAMPLES: e-procurement, centralised purchasing by government agencies, the work of the acquisitions group in Ministry of Defence, pharmaceuticals purchasing, purchasing through 'government stores board' if it were to be re-created. EXCLUDES: Commercial activities some local bodies and government agencies undertake in competition with the private sector, see - 'Administering government, Running commercial enterprises' Certifying documents TT USE Authenticating documents Certifying practitioners TT USE Accrediting Certifying services TT USE Accrediting Charting TT USE Analysing information Classifying TT USE Censoring USE Creating finding aids USE Information management (Internal) Coaching TT USE Teaching Collecting data TT USE Gathering data Collecting information TT UF Gathering information BT Informing NT Building informative collections NT Gathering data NT Searching out existing information DEF Actively seeking out data or requiring people to provide information which will be used for government purposes, including the purpose of providing public access Collecting revenue TT USE Revenue gathering Collective tendering TT USE Centralised purchasing Committing under Mental Health Act TT USE Supporting community care Communicating with constituents TT UF Communicating with ratepayers BT Representing constituents SN EXCLUDES Ministerials, see 'Informing, Providing access to information, Answering information requests' Communicating with ratepayers TT USE Communicating with constituents Community policing TT USE Preventing crime Compensating for lost earnings TT USE Providing income support Compulsory purchase TT USE Establishing infrastructure systems Conducting Court hearings TT USE Conducting legal hearings Conducting legal hearings TT UF Conducting Court hearings UF Empanelling a jury UF Hearing disputes UF Holding a trial UF Preparing court cases UF Summonsing BT Ensuring compliance DEF The process of preparing for and conducting a hearing, dispute or court case SN INCLUDES: Summonsing, empanelling a jury, preparing cases, conducting a case, holding a trial, hearing appeals, hearing disputes, hearing claims. Includes hearings by the Waitangi Tribunal, Maori Land Court, Maori Appellate Court, and the Family Court. Includes both criminal and civil proceedings Conducting military operations TT UF Mobilising armed forces BT Defending NT Fighting NT Patrolling NT Peacekeeping NT Providing military logistic support DEF Planning, deploying, sustaining and carrying out military operations SN INCLUDES: low level conventional operations, combined operations Conserving heritage TT USE Protecting heritage Conserving the environment TT UF Preserving the environment UF Protecting the environment BT Protecting NT Enhancing ecosystems NT Maintaining ecosystems NT Protecting individual species RT Containing non-human pests and diseases RT Exterminating non-human pests and diseases DEF Protection of landscape, natural waterways, marine habitats and their associated indigenous species to prevent exploitation, destruction or neglect and to ensure their continued enjoyment by present and future New Zealanders SN EXCLUDES: Developing district and regional plans - see 'Rulemaking, Developing delegated legislation'. For control of pests and diseases see 'Protecting, Border control, Excluding unwanted organisms' or, if pests and diseases have already entered the country and become established see 'Protecting, Controlling unwanted organisms'. For control of trade in endangered species (inwards and outwards) see 'Upholding the rules, Monitoring compliance''. See also 'Upholding the rules' for applying due process to suspected smuggling of animals and plants. Constructing public works TT USE Building Consulting on policy TT UF Making submissions on policy UF Seeking secondary opinions on financial implications of policy BT Policy making DEF Seeking input from interested parties. Collating, analysing and presenting responses SN INCLUDES: Inter-departmental consultation, sector consultation, public consultation Containing non-human pests and diseases TT UF Controlling non-human pests and diseases UF Issuing animal movement orders UF Quarantining UF Restricting movement of infected stock BT Controlling unwanted organisms RT Conserving the environment RT Enhancing ecosystems RT Maintaining ecosystems RT Protecting individual species DEF Carrying out activities to limit the spread of pests and diseases SN EXAMPLES: Restricting movement of stock, monitoring levels of pests, quarantining, running regular pest control maintenance programmes Contracting out TT USE Financial management (Internal) USE Purchasing services for the public Controlling immigration TT UF Granting permanent residence UF Issuing entry visas UF Processing applications for entry to New Zealand BT Border control Controlling non-human pests and diseases TT USE Containing non-human pests and diseases Controlling predators TT USE Enhancing ecosystems USE Exterminating non-human pests and diseases Controlling unwanted organisms TT UF Pest control BT Protecting NT Containing non-human pests and diseases NT Exterminating non-human pests and diseases NT Immunising animals RT Excluding unwanted organisms RT Reducing health risks to people DEF Limiting the spread and minimising the impact of established pests and diseases in New Zealand affecting indigenous species, the environment or primary production. NOTE: 'Biosecurity' is the protection of New Zealand's economy, environment and people's health from pests and diseases. It includes trying to prevent new pests and diseases arriving, and eradicating or controlling those already present Converting data TT USE Analysing information Corporate management (Internal) TT BT Administering government NT Administration (Internal) NT Financial management (Internal) NT Human resource management (Internal) NT Information management (Internal) NT Risk management (Internal) DEF Managing the organisation's own corporate body SN EXCLUDES: Appointing Chief Executives, judges, commissioners and setting their remuneration see - 'Administering government, Appointing to senior or statutory positions' and 'Administering government, External setting of remuneration'. Excludes operational procedures and guidelines - see 'Rulemaking' Counselling TT USE Providing personal advice Creating draft policy TT BT Policy making DEF Analysing possible options and developing potential policy SN INCLUDES: government green papers, Cabinet Papers, Cabinet minutes, Cabinet briefs EXCLUDES: carrying out information analysis and research, see 'Informing' Creating finding aids TT UF Accessioning UF Cataloguing UF Classifying UF Creating metadata UF Indexing BT Providing access to information DEF Describing objects or information in a systematic way, and creating systems to search for and retrieve that information Creating jobs TT BT Optimising employment Creating metadata TT USE Creating finding aids Credentialling TT USE Accrediting USE Registering Cremating TT USE Disposing of human remains Decommissioning infrastructure TT UF Disabling infrastructure UF Disestablishing infrastructure UF Mothballing infrastructure BT Providing infrastructure DEF Removing infrastructure systems, structures or equipment from active use, either by demolition or by standing down from service SN EXCLUDES: privatising, see 'Administering government, Structuring government, Privatising' Defending TT NT Conducting military operations NT Developing international military relations NT Intelligence gathering NT Maintaining military readiness DEF Securing New Zealand against threat of force, protecting the security of strategic and national assets, meeting alliance commitments and contributing to global security Delegating TT BT Ensuring accountability DEF Creating and maintaining formal delegation systems between elected bodies and government agencies SN EXAMPLES: Cabinet delegations to Ministers, Ministerial delegations to Chief Executives, Chief Executive delegations to Senior Managers, delegations created by legislation, e.g. Commerce Commission delegated powers to set prices Delivering civil defence TT USE Providing emergency services Delivering courses TT USE Teaching Deporting TT UF Serving a removal order BT Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies DEF Removing a non-citizen from New Zealand SN EXAMPLES: removing illegal migrants or residents who have served criminal sentences Detaining TT UF Arresting UF Distraining UF Granting bail UF Impounding UF Remanding in custody UF Seizing goods BT Ensuring compliance DEF Temporary detention of people or property as part of an investigation, including during a hearing SN INCLUDES: arresting, granting bail, detaining before or during a trial, seizing or impounding equipment or goods temporarily e.g. impounding stock, arresting illegal fishers Detecting TT USE Investigating incidents Determining electoral boundaries TT BT Maintaining electoral process SN EXAMPLE: The work of the Representation Commission Determining legal sanctions and remedies TT UF Pardoning BT Ensuring compliance DEF Deciding an appropriate form of remedial action, eg punishment, reparation or sanction SN EXAMPLES: Sentencing, awarding, ordering, imposing fines, issuing notices (eg by building inspectors), suspension of licence, determining international sanctions. May also be an outcome of inspecting, without there having been a hearing Determining qualifications framework TT UF Establishing a qualification BT Educating DEF Determining which qualifications should become part of the national system, identifying pre-requisite requirements for specific qualifications, and agreeing to them SN EXAMPLES: Skill New Zealand apprenticeship qualification schemes, Conservation Ranger qualifications EXCLUDES: Accrediting providers of teaching/training or accrediting courses - see 'Authorising, Accrediting' Determining the electoral system TT BT Maintaining electoral process DEF Setting up the electoral system and carrying out changes to the system to implement agreed policy and legislative change Developing case law TT UF Establishing legal precedents BT Interpreting the law DEF Using previous judgments as precedents in court cases or as a basis for possible changes in the law SN EXAMPLE: Establishing precedents Developing course material TT USE Developing educational resources Developing courses TT BT Educating SN EXCLUDES: accrediting courses - see 'Authorising, Accrediting' Developing curriculum TT BT Educating SN Excludes funding education Developing delegated legislation TT BT Rulemaking NT Bringing delegated legislation into force NT Drafting delegated legislation DEF Developing the rules outside of Parliament that have the force of law Developing educational resources TT UF Developing course material UF Developing learning material UF Developing learning resources UF Developing teaching materials BT Educating Developing government sector procedures TT BT Ensuring accountability DEF Creating administrative procedures which apply across government agencies SN EXAMPLES: Cabinet Manual, Treasury Instructions, State Services Commission guidelines, cross agency purchasing guidelines. NOTE: These procedures are administrative, not operational Developing international military relations TT UF Making defence treaties BT Defending DEF Negotiating and agreeing mutual defence arrangements with other countries SN EXAMPLES: Australia New Zealand United States alliance (ANZUS), or participating in South Pacific defence treaties, Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) Canberra Pact EXCLUDES: International trade treaties, see 'Enabling, Facilitating business development, Negotiating trade conditions' Developing learning material TT USE Developing educational resources Developing learning resources TT USE Developing educational resources Developing legal opinions TT BT Interpreting the law DEF Creating formal statements on how the law may apply to a given situation SN EXAMPLES: Providing Crown Law opinions, creating case notes, clarifying copyright law EXCLUDES: giving general (non-specific) legal advice to the public - see 'Informing, Providing access to information, Answering information requests' and 'Informing, Providing access to information, Publicising' Developing mandated standards TT USE Drafting delegated legislation Developing service delivery procedures TT BT Rulemaking DEF Creating guidelines on how to implement service delivery, to ensure that government agencies act within the boundaries of legislation, delegated legislation, Treaty of Waitangi obligations and agreed policy. SN EXAMPLES: Developing immigration manual, Health Board rules on waiting list management, school rules, and the approved 'style' of delivery. EXCLUDES: administrative guidelines used only within an organisation, see 'Administering government, Corporate management [internal], Administration [internal]' or administrative guidelines used throughout the government sector - see 'Administering government, Ensuring accountability, Developing government sector procedures', excludes developing strategic plans, see 'Policy making, Planning for policy implementation' Developing teaching materials TT USE Developing educational resources Disabling infrastructure TT USE Decommissioning infrastructure Disaster recovery planning TT USE Mitigating hazards USE Risk management (Internal) Disciplinary suspension TT USE Enforcing legally required actions Disestablishing infrastructure TT USE Decommissioning infrastructure Disinterring animal remains TT USE Disposing of animal remains Disinterring human remains TT USE Disposing of human remains Disposing of animal remains TT UF Burying animal remains UF Disinterring animal remains UF Interring animal remains BT Providing public health services DEF Burial, cremation or otherwise disposing of dead animals Disposing of assets TT USE Managing public assets Disposing of human remains TT UF Burying human remains UF Cremating UF Disinterring human remains UF Interring human remains BT Providing public health services DEF Burial or cremation of people after death Disposing of waste TT UF Recycling UF Treating waste BT Providing public health services DEF Collecting, treating and getting rid of waste and effluent SN EXAMPLES: Rubbish collection, waste disposal, managing stormwater runoff and treating sewage, hazardous waste disposal, operating landfills, recycling waste Distraining TT USE Detaining Distributing information TT USE Providing access to information Drafting delegated legislation TT UF Developing mandated standards UF Drafting Orders in Council UF Drafting statutory instruments UF Writing bylaws BT Developing delegated legislation DEF Drafting rules which have the force of law but which do not go through Parliament SN INCLUDES: Drafting regulations, Orders in Council, Codes of Practice, Building Code, local government District Plans, local government by-laws. EXCLUDES: Informing people about legislation - see 'Informing, Providing access to information, Answering information requests'. Excludes developing case law - see 'Upholding the rules, Interpreting the law, Developing case law' Drafting instructions for legislation TT USE Drafting parliamentary legislation Drafting Orders in Council TT USE Drafting delegated legislation Drafting parliamentary legislation TT UF Drafting instructions for legislation UF Select committee hearings UF Writing legislation BT Legislating in Parliament DEF Drafting instructions for and drafting bills to go through Parliament, including Private Members Bills and Local Bills Drafting statutory instruments TT USE Drafting delegated legislation E-procurement TT USE Centralised purchasing USE Financial management (Internal) USE Purchasing services for the public Educating TT UF Training BT Enabling NT Assessing student achievement NT Determining qualifications framework NT Developing courses NT Developing curriculum NT Developing educational resources NT Funding individual study NT Moderating student assessment system NT Teaching DEF Facilitating the development of, and providing, education and training SN EXCLUDES: determining the need for new qualifications - see 'Policy making'; Excludes disciplining pupils - see 'Upholding the rules'; applying enrolment schemes - see 'Protecting, Managing consumption of resources'; Accrediting providers - see 'Authorising, Accrediting', excludes monitoring examination sites and procedures and National Education Guidelines (NEGS) or National Administration Guidelines (NAGS) - see 'Upholding the rules, monitoring compliance' Emergency management TT USE Providing emergency services Eminent domain TT USE Establishing infrastructure systems Empanelling a jury TT USE Conducting legal hearings Enabling TT NT Educating NT Facilitating business development NT Facilitating community development NT Optimising employment NT Promoting participation in society DEF Providing or promoting opportunities to enhance the capability of individuals/families, communities, businesses/industries Enacting legislation TT USE Promulgating laws Encouraging participation in the community TT BT Promoting participation in society DEF Ensuring opportunities for people to participate fully in their social environment Encouraging safe health practices TT USE Promoting good health USE Reducing health risks to people Enforcing custodial punishment TT UF Imprisoning BT Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies DEF Monitoring and overseeing conditions that are custodial or have the potential to be custodial if conditions are not met SN EXAMPLES: Supervising prisoners, periodic detention, probationers, parolees, home detainees, diversion, suspended sentences Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies TT UF Making reparation UF Punishing UF Supervising punishment BT Upholding the rules NT Applying monetary sanctions NT Deporting NT Enforcing custodial punishment NT Enforcing legally required actions NT Extraditing NT Granting parole DEF Ensuring that decided outcomes are carried out Enforcing legally required actions TT UF Banning UF Disciplinary suspension UF Expulsion UF Impounding BT Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies DEF Directing the carrying out of remedial or punitive actions which do not involve monetary sanctions or custodial punishments SN EXAMPLES: Selling guns, splitting a company, sharing custody of children, divesting shares, the work of the bailiff, supervising de-registration or de-accreditation, gazetting, enforcing protection orders, upholding international sanctions, seizing or impounding equipment or goods as a forfeit. Preventing travel out of New Zealand, e.g. by children who are the subject of custody agreements Enhancing ecosystems TT UF Controlling predators UF Establishing reserves UF Improving habitat UF Redistributing species UF Revegetation BT Conserving the environment RT Containing non-human pests and diseases RT Exterminating non-human pests and diseases DEF Carrying out activities to modify a habitat to a better state SN EXAMPLES: Protecting offshore islands, establishing 'mainland islands' Enlisting in armed forces TT USE Human resource management (Internal) Enriching TT NT Holding official ceremonies NT Honouring individuals NT Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities NT Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities NT Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities DEF Developing and enhancing the capability of individuals, families and communities to participate in cultural, recreational and sporting activities. Enrolling TT USE Registering Ensuring accountability TT UF Accounting UF Auditing BT Administering government NT Accountability reporting NT Delegating NT Developing government sector procedures NT External auditing NT Setting accountability requirements DEF Setting up the requirements within which government bodies must act and monitoring their performance Ensuring compliance TT BT Upholding the rules NT Conducting legal hearings NT Detaining NT Determining legal sanctions and remedies NT Resolving disputes DEF Applying due process of the law and determining outcomes Ensuring personal health TT BT Protecting NT Medical testing and diagnosing NT Providing chronic care NT Providing palliative care NT Treating medical conditions DEF Providing health services to individuals and families SN EXCLUDES: Public health, see 'Protecting, Providing public health services'. Excludes purchasing or funding, see 'Administering government'. Excludes registering people or pharmaceuticals, see 'Authorising,registering' Excludes subsidising cost of services or pharmaceuticals, see 'Assisting' Ensuring public health TT USE Providing public health services Ensuring public safety TT BT Protecting NT Censoring NT Mitigating hazards NT Preventing crime NT Providing emergency services DEF Protecting the public from loss and injury SN EXAMPLES: Aid to the civil power by military forces and others Eradicating non-human pests and diseases TT USE Exterminating non-human pests and diseases Establishing a qualification TT USE Determining qualifications framework Establishing available resource TT BT Managing consumption of resources DEF Identifying the amount of a resource available for sharing out SN Establishing fishing quota, allocating finite funding to identified health services, e.g. so many hip operations, identifying inter-agency resource inventories, Identifying strategic resources such as coal reserves, petroleum reserves etc Establishing courts TT USE Establishing judiciary Establishing infrastructure systems TT UF Acquiring land for public works UF Compulsory purchase UF Eminent domain BT Providing infrastructure DEF Designing, implementing and extending the coverage of systems and equipment in order to deliver infrastructure services SN INCLUDES: Setting up or reconfiguring national grid. Developing waste water system, developing public transport systems, water supply system or energy supply networks. Developing communications networks, street lighting and parking, developing harbours and airports, air traffic control systems, developing the roading network Establishing judiciary TT UF Establishing courts BT Structuring government DEF Establishing the jurisdictional powers and hierarchy of the Courts and the status of the judiciary, as prescribed by convention and statute Establishing legal precedents TT USE Developing case law Establishing monetary control mechanisms TT BT Providing infrastructure DEF Designing and extending the coverage of systems and instruments to implement monetary policy Establishing new government agencies TT USE Restructuring government sector Establishing representative bodies TT BT Structuring government DEF Setting in place and providing for the continuing existence of Parliament, and of territorial authorities SN EXAMPLE: Parliament, Mayors and Councillors Establishing reserves TT USE Enhancing ecosystems USE Maintaining ecosystems Establishing the Head of State TT BT Structuring government DEF Setting in place and providing for continuity of the Head of State and their representatives SN EXAMPLES: Transferring the functions of the monarch on their death, recommending Governor General Evaluating policy TT BT Policy making DEF Evaluating the effectiveness of policy implementation either by the implementing agency or an external agency SN May well lead to the start of a fresh round of policy development Examining student skills TT USE Assessing student achievement Excluding unwanted organisms TT BT Border control RT Controlling unwanted organisms RT Monitoring compliance RT Reducing health risks to people DEF Preventing introduction of pests and diseases affecting people, primary production, indigenous species or the environment SN INCLUDES: Preventing introduction of foot and mouth disease, or damaging plants, including introduction through imports of meat, meat products and by-products, and animal products and by-products Exploring policy options TT BT Policy making DEF Identifying the need for policy and recommending possible directions for government to consider SN May include consideration of the work of Royal Commissions or Committees of Enquiry such as the Tax Review 2001 - they make recommendations but don't set policy. Cabinet and Select Committees have responsibility for policy initiatives in government - officials provide input from the bottom up. Expulsion TT USE Enforcing legally required actions Expurgating TT USE Censoring Exterminating non-human pests and diseases TT UF Controlling predators UF Eradicating non-human pests and diseases UF Pest destruction BT Controlling unwanted organisms RT Conserving the environment RT Enhancing ecosystems RT Maintaining ecosystems RT Protecting individual species DEF Destroying unwanted organisms, including pests and disease vectors in a confined area, or from New Zealand External auditing TT BT Ensuring accountability DEF Finance and performance auditing of government agencies by external auditors SN INCLUDES: Audit New Zealand audits, or contracted auditors acting for government, Te Puni Kokiri audits of government departmental responsiveness to Maori, enquiries into an agency's performance. EXCLUDES: Inspecting for compliance, eg by the Education Review Office - see 'Upholding the rules, Inspecting' External setting of remuneration TT UF Setting higher salaries BT Structuring government DEF Reviewing, recommending and setting the remuneration of senior or statutory positions from outside the agency that has those positions SN EXAMPLE: Entities and mechanisms for conducting hearings and reviews Extraditing TT BT Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies DEF Removing a person from New Zealand to stand trial or serve a sentence in another national jurisdiction. Removing a person from another jurisdiction to stand trial or serve a sentence in New Zealand SN EXAMPLES: Extraditing illegal migrants or residents who have served sentences Facilitating business development TT UF Facilitating industry BT Enabling NT Attracting businesses NT Funding business development NT Negotiating trade conditions NT Promoting trade NT Providing business advice DEF Carrying out activities which will attract business, promoting types of industry, funding or subsidising business research and development and providing a favourable business climate Facilitating community development TT BT Enabling NT Funding community groups NT Providing advice to community groups NT Providing services to community groups DEF Increasing community self sufficiency by providing funding or services for local initiatives Facilitating industry TT USE Facilitating business development Facilitating job placements TT BT Optimising employment SN Sometimes this is done by central and local government, as well as privately Facilities management TT USE Administration (Internal) USE Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities Fighting TT BT Conducting military operations SN EXAMPLE: Conducting low level conventional operations Finalising policy TT UF Approving policy BT Policy making DEF Determining the shape of final policy and approving it SN INCLUDES: finalising and approving (seeking approval for) Cabinet policy Financial management (Internal) TT UF Accounting UF Acquisitions UF Contracting out UF E-procurement UF Outsourcing UF Procurement UF Tendering BT Corporate management (Internal) DEF Running the financial internal control systems of an agency, including processing revenue and expenditure, maintaining a general ledger, and internal budgeting SN INCLUDES: Corporate internal purchasing of goods and services for use within the organisation concerned, managing accounts payable and accounts receivable, running the usual accounting needs of the organisation. EXCLUDES: participating in the government budget cycle, centralised purchasing or purchasing services to deliver outputs, for which use 'Managing the budget cycle', 'Centralised purchasing' and 'Purchasing services for the public' respectively Fining TT USE Applying monetary sanctions Forming the government TT BT Structuring government DEF Determining which political party or parties have the confidence of Parliament. Appointment of Prime Minister and ministers by Governor General SN EXAMPLE: Establishing a coalition government Funding business development TT UF Funding industrial development BT Facilitating business development DEF Providing seed money, guaranteeing startup or expansion loans from banks, providing venture capital, funding research and development Funding community groups TT UF Guaranteeing loans to community groups BT Facilitating community development DEF Providing grants, loans or loan guarantees to recognized community groups to fund local projects SN INCLUDES: projects which promote/increase community self sufficiency, building community capability. Includes provision of grants, loans and loan guarantees Funding individual study TT BT Educating DEF Providing grants, scholarships or loans to assist individuals to undertake a recognised course of study SN INCLUDES: Student loans, study grants, scholarships, eg Pacific Island scholarships, Winston Churchill memorial fellowship. Study can be in New Zealand or overseas Funding industrial development TT USE Funding business development Gathering data TT UF Carrying out surveys UF Collecting data UF Measuring BT Collecting information DEF Collecting facts (especially quantitative facts) together for later analysis and use SN EXAMPLES: collecting statistics such as the census of population, interviewing and administering questionnaires, questioning people, measuring or surveying physical formations or flora and fauna Gathering information TT USE Collecting information Gazetting delegated legislation TT USE Bringing delegated legislation into force Government spending TT USE Managing the budget cycle Granting bail TT USE Detaining Granting citizenship TT BT Protecting DEF Conferring citizenship by grant on people who qualify by criteria other than birth or descent. Includes taking the oath of allegiance by non-commonwealth citizens Granting commercial concessions TT USE Granting consents Granting consents TT UF Administering consents UF Granting commercial concessions UF Issuing permits BT Authorising DEF Granting consents and issuing permits to undertake specific activities with very defined boundaries - where the amount of activity is limited and/or the place of activity is defined. Usually to do with construction according to the building code or use of the environment under the Resource Management Act. Includes refusing to grant consent SN EXAMPLES: Issuing resource consents, issuing building consents. Issuing mining consent, water rights usage, discharge of waste water permits. Also includes the process of hearing submissions related to a specific application for consent. EXCLUDES: Hearings related to the development of District or Regional Plans, see 'Rulemaking, Developing delegated legislation' or taking an appeal against refusal to grant a permit, see 'Upholding the rules, Ensuring compliance, Conducting legal hearings' Granting parole TT BT Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies SN This is not the same as supervising parole Granting permanent residence TT USE Controlling immigration Guaranteeing business loans TT USE Subsidising businesses Guaranteeing loans to community groups TT USE Funding community groups Guaranteeing welfare loans TT USE Subsidising welfare loans Hearing disputes TT USE Conducting legal hearings Holding a trial TT USE Conducting legal hearings Holding elections TT UF Overseeing voting in elections BT Maintaining electoral process SN INCLUDES: by-elections, central government elections, local government elections, school board elections and health board elections, the work of the Electoral Commission Holding official ceremonies TT UF Running events BT Enriching DEF Arranging and running ceremonial, cultural or civic events in which central or local government plays a prominent part and which celebrate or commemorate aspects of New Zealand life and culture SN EXAMPLES: State ceremonies, the opening of Parliament, cultural ceremonies, investiture ceremonies, wreath laying, civic functions, citizenship ceremonies Holding referenda TT UF Overseeing voting in referenda BT Maintaining electoral process SN EXAMPLE: Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) referendum Honouring individuals TT BT Enriching DEF Providing government recognition of individuals who have made contributions to New Zealand as a whole or to their own communities SN EXAMPLE: The New Zealand Honours List, creating and maintaining memorials and statues, awarding medals, creating plaques for war graves Human resource management (Internal) TT UF Enlisting in armed forces UF Paying allowances UF Paying salaries UF Paying staff UF Paying wages UF Personnel management (Internal) UF Recruiting UF Seconding staff UF Setting staff salaries BT Corporate management (Internal) DEF Recruiting staff, setting remuneration levels, conditions of employment, training and development, and managing performance of all staff below Chief Executive level SN INCLUDES: Secondments, staff exchanges, establishing pay levels and allowances, including military in-service allowances and grants, payroll. EXCLUDES: Setting salaries of senior or statutory appointment, although payroll will usually include them Identifying locations TT BT Providing infrastructure DEF Establishing and implementing common systems for naming or numbering physical features. Unique and non-unique identifiers for physical features SN EXAMPLES: Establishing street and place names, the Global Positioning System. Immunising animals TT UF Innoculating animals UF Vaccinating animals BT Controlling unwanted organisms SN EXCLUDES: controlling human diseases - see 'Protecting, Providing personal health services' and 'Protecting, Providing public health Immunising people TT UF Innoculating people UF Vaccinating people BT Providing public health services Implementing monetary policy TT BT Maintaining infrastructure systems DEF Taking action to affect monetary and other financial conditions SN EXAMPLES: setting the official cash rate, inflation control, delivering price stability, setting inflation policy targets Implementing Treaty of Waitangi TT BT Administering government DEF Carrying out measures which implement the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi SN For setting accountability requirements under the Treaty of Waitangi, see 'Administering Government, Ensuring accountability, Setting accountability requirements'. For reporting under the Treaty of Waitangi, see 'Administering government, Ensuring accountability, Accountability reporting' Impounding TT USE Detaining USE Enforcing legally required actions Imprisoning TT USE Enforcing custodial punishment Improving habitat TT USE Enhancing ecosystems Indexing TT USE Creating finding aids Information management (Internal) TT UF Classifying UF Knowledge management UF Record keeping BT Corporate management (Internal) DEF Developing and operating systems, practices and technologies to manage information content produced by an organisation or used by an organisation in the course of its administration SN EXAMPLES: Records management, Information technology - IT Informing TT NT Analysing information NT Collecting information NT Maintaining information NT Providing access to information NT Researching DEF Discovering, collecting, processing, analysing, maintaining and disseminating information. Innoculating animals TT USE Immunising animals Innoculating people TT USE Immunising people Inspecting TT BT Monitoring compliance DEF Programmed inspecting, in both the public and private sectors, to determine whether rules are being obeyed and standards are being met. Includes inspecting activities, procedures or equipment and associated documentation. SN EXAMPLES: Occupational Safety and Health scheduled inspections, Fire Service inspections, checking political parties' returns for compliance, checking weighing machines used for trade, monitoring product safety, inspections of produce for export, customs inspections to monitor the restricted entry and exit of goods, animals and plants, protected species, contraband (including prohibited substances) and indecent publications. EXCLUDES: auditing government agency administration and work of Audit New Zealand, see 'Administering government, Ensuring accountability, External auditing'. Excludes skills testing, see 'Enabling, Educating, Assessing student achievement' Instructing TT USE Teaching Insuring TT USE Risk management (Internal) Intelligence gathering TT UF Spying UF Surveillance BT Defending DEF Collecting and analysing information on potential and actual threats to national security, including for economic and resource security SN EXAMPLE: Identifying risks to national security Interest group advocacy TT UF Advocating for interest groups BT Representing DEF Identifying the needs of a particular interest group and acting on their behalf SN EXAMPLE: The advocacy activities of agencies whose function is to represent the interests of specific groups such as: Te Puni Kokiri, Ministry of Women's Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs, Commissioner for Children. International representation TT BT Representing New Zealand internationally DEF Representing New Zealand in international negotiations and at meetings of international organisations SN INCLUDES: Government ministers or officials representing New Zealand at international conferences, United Nations, international commissions, includes representatives with particular areas of expertise eg conservation, agriculture. EXCLUDES: negotiating treaties, see 'Defending, Making military alliances' and 'Enabling, Facilitating business development, Negotiating trade conditions' Interpreting data TT USE Analysing information Interpreting the law TT BT Upholding the rules NT Developing case law NT Developing legal opinions DEF Saying how the law may apply in particular circumstances Interring animal remains TT USE Disposing of animal remains Interring human remains TT USE Disposing of human remains Investigating accidents TT USE Investigating incidents Investigating breaches TT USE Investigating incidents Investigating incidents TT UF Detecting UF Investigating accidents UF Investigating breaches BT Monitoring compliance RT Mitigating hazards DEF Reactive, probing the circumstances around a particular incident to discover whether a breach of the rules has been committed SN INCLUDES: detective work, Occupational Safety and Health investigating an industrial accident, air accident investigations, Ombudsman's investigations, investigations by the Police Complaints Authority, instigating the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry 'Traceback' system in response to an incident or scare. Investing TT USE Managing public assets Issuing animal movement orders TT USE Containing non-human pests and diseases Issuing currency TT UF Minting UF Printing money BT Maintaining infrastructure systems Issuing emergency travel documents TT USE Supplying travel documents Issuing entry visas TT USE Controlling immigration Issuing passports TT USE Supplying travel documents Issuing permits TT USE Granting consents Knowledge management TT USE Information management (Internal) Law reform TT USE Reviewing rules Lawmaking TT USE Rulemaking Legislating in Parliament TT BT Rulemaking NT Drafting parliamentary legislation NT Passing parliamentary legislation NT Promulgating laws DEF The process of drafting and passing legislation through Parliament Levying TT USE Revenue gathering Licensing TT USE Registering Maintaining buildings and amenities TT UF Repairing buildings and amenities BT Maintaining infrastructure systems DEF Carrying out repairs, painting, updating building services Maintaining ecosystems TT UF Establishing reserves UF Maintaining habitat BT Conserving the environment RT Containing non-human pests and diseases RT Exterminating non-human pests and diseases RT Providing emergency services DEF Carrying out activities necessary to protect habitat from further deterioration SN EXAMPLES: Excluding weeds, maintaining water levels, cleaning up environmental contamination such as oil spills Maintaining electoral process TT BT Representing NT Determining electoral boundaries NT Determining the electoral system NT Holding elections NT Holding referenda DEF Providing the framework to enable voters to vote Maintaining habitat TT USE Maintaining ecosystems Maintaining information TT UF Accessioning UF Archiving UF Processing information UF Storing information BT Informing DEF Storing and managing collected information to retain accuracy, confidentiality, authenticity and usefulness and to prevent degradation SN EXCLUDES: Describing it to help others find it, see 'Informing, Providing access to information, Creating finding aids' Maintaining infrastructure systems TT BT Providing infrastructure NT Implementing monetary policy NT Issuing currency NT Maintaining buildings and amenities NT Maintaining networks NT Managing foreign exchange NT Overseeing the financial system DEF Operating established infrastructure systems, operating and maintaining physical structures and equipment, and/or increasing their capacity, improving their quality, or monitoring their operation Maintaining military readiness TT BT Defending DEF Developing and maintaining military capability to ensure the armed forces are prepared to conduct operations from an agreed state of readiness and at specific levels of conflict SN EXAMPLES: Holding or running military exercises, providing and maintaining weaponry, maintaining states of readiness such as Operational Level of Capability (OLOC) EXCLUDES: Training, see 'Enabling, Educating' Maintaining networks TT BT Maintaining infrastructure systems DEF Monitoring and operating existing networks to ensure they continue to work effectively SN EXAMPLES: Investigating radio frequency interference Making defence treaties TT USE Developing international military relations Making information available TT BT Providing access to information DEF Ensuring information available for public inspection or use without distributing it SN INCLUDES: making electoral rolls available, providing read-only access to Statistics New Zealand databases, providing access to a database through a website. Making reparation TT USE Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies Making speeches TT USE Publicising Making submissions on legislation TT USE Passing parliamentary legislation USE Reviewing rules Making submissions on policy TT USE Consulting on policy Making the environment safe TT USE Reducing health risks to people Managing consumption of resources TT BT Protecting NT Allocating resource NT Establishing available resource DEF Limiting and/or sharing out the use of resources SN EXAMPLES: Sharing out use of radio frequencies, water, fisheries, minerals, imposing bag limits, sharing out water rights, allocating election broadcasting time and funds to political parties Managing foreign exchange TT BT Maintaining infrastructure systems DEF Dealing in foreign exchange, fixing exchange rates Managing public assets TT UF Asset sales UF Disposing of assets UF Investing UF Selling assets BT Managing public finances RT Privatising DEF Managing assets and managing and investing cash, funds and unclaimed monies in New Zealand and overseas SN EXAMPLE: Managing cash, funds, investing; managing unclaimed monies, disposing of Crown assets e.g. land sales, managing public surpluses, managing the Land Acquisition Fund. Applies both to New Zealand and overseas assets EXCLUDES: selling a government business, see - 'Administering government, Structuring government, Privatising' Managing public debt TT UF Borrowing by the Crown BT Managing public finances DEF Borrowing money to finance government activities, and managing repayment of those loans SN INCLUDES: borrowing, including the work of the Reserve Bank acting as agent for Debt Management Office of Treasury Managing public finances TT UF Accounting UF Auditing BT Administering government NT Centralised purchasing NT Managing public assets NT Managing public debt NT Managing public liabilities NT Managing the budget cycle NT Purchasing services for the public NT Revenue gathering DEF Managing the processes by which government raises, manages and disburses funds, manages debts and assets and purchases services across government Managing public liabilities TT BT Managing public finances RT Risk management (Internal) DEF Identifying possible financial risks to government and putting strategies in place to manage those risks SN EXAMPLES: Managing Accident Corporation claims, managing the earthquake insurance scheme, dealing with claims against the Crown and claims under the Treaty of Waitangi Managing the budget cycle TT UF Allocating budget UF Appropriations UF Budget vote allocation UF Government spending UF Preparing budget estimates UF Preparing economic and fiscal updates UF Public expenditure BT Managing public finances DEF Centralised process of estimating and allocating budgets, to which each agency contributes, and which is controlled by central agencies SN EXAMPLES: carrying out budget/vote/appropriation rounds, providing Treasury secondary opinions, the Estimates process EXCLUDES: performing a service, managing the machinery of government Mandating TT USE Rulemaking Mapping TT USE Analysing information Marketing TT USE Publicising Measuring TT USE Gathering data Mediating TT USE Resolving disputes Medical testing and diagnosing TT UF Providing pathology services BT Ensuring personal health DEF Checking individuals for the suspected presence of biological conditions such as pregnancy, disease or other causes of ill-health or injury, and identifying causative organisms, conditions etc SN EXCLUDES: Mass screening of populations for illnesses or conditions, see 'Protecting, Providing public health services, screening' Mentoring TT USE Teaching Minimizing harm TT USE Mitigating hazards Minimizing natural disasters TT USE Mitigating hazards Minting TT USE Issuing currency Mitigating hazards TT UF Disaster recovery planning UF Minimizing harm UF Minimizing natural disasters BT Ensuring public safety RT Investigating incidents DEF Preventing or reducing the potential impact of accidents, incidents and emergencies SN EXAMPLES: upgrading stop banks for flood protection, ensuring land use is appropriate, running breathalyser campaigns, improving road safety, New Zealand Defence Force upgrading work on the Desert Road, installing smoke detectors, avalanche control, planning for emergency use of conservation huts Mobilising armed forces TT USE Conducting military operations Moderating student assessment system TT BT Educating DEF Moderating within a school, moderating across schools, and checking the appropriate level of assessment Monitoring compliance TT BT Upholding the rules NT Inspecting NT Investigating incidents RT Border control RT Excluding unwanted organisms DEF Checking to see whether rules have been complied with and investigating possible breaches Mothballing infrastructure TT USE Decommissioning infrastructure Nationalising TT BT Structuring government RT Privatising DEF Converting from private to government ownership SN EXAMPLES: Buying back railways or electricity generation companies Negotiating trade conditions TT BT Facilitating business development SN INCLUDES: Negotiating international trade treaties Notarising TT USE Authenticating documents Nursing TT USE Treating medical conditions Operating breeding programmes for endangered species TT USE Protecting individual species Optimising employment TT BT Enabling NT Creating jobs NT Facilitating job placements NT Providing career guidance DEF Ensuring the labour market operates to meet New Zealand's employment needs Outsourcing TT USE Financial management (Internal) USE Purchasing services for the public Overseeing the financial system TT BT Maintaining infrastructure systems DEF Supervising operations of banks to maintain a sound financial system, and providing central banking services to other banks SN EXCLUDES: Setting up a government bank providing services to the public in competition with other banks, see 'Administering government, Corporate management, Running commercial enterprises' Overseeing voting in elections TT USE Holding elections Overseeing voting in referenda TT USE Holding referenda Pardoning TT USE Determining legal sanctions and remedies Passing parliamentary legislation TT UF Making submissions on legislation BT Legislating in Parliament DEF Introducing bills, debating bills in the House, reviewing bills in Select Committees through to the final reading and final vote stages. Includes getting a bill into the Legislative Programme SN INCLUDES: working with Bills, Supplementary Order papers which contain alterations to legislation, legislating to ratify international treaties and conventions. EXCLUDES: Order Papers not dealing with legislation, see 'Administering government' Patrolling TT BT Conducting military operations SN EXAMPLE: Maritime patrolling of the exclusive economic zone to make sure other nations do not access resources illegally Paying allowances TT USE Human resource management (Internal) Paying medical treatment costs TT USE Subsidising social services Paying salaries TT USE Human resource management (Internal) Paying staff TT USE Human resource management (Internal) Paying wages TT USE Human resource management (Internal) Paying welfare benefits TT USE Providing income support Peacekeeping TT BT Conducting military operations SN EXAMPLES: Monitoring elections overseas, peacekeeping duties in East Timor Performing surgery TT USE Treating medical conditions Personnel management (Internal) TT USE Human resource management (Internal) Pest control TT USE Controlling unwanted organisms Pest destruction TT USE Exterminating non-human pests and diseases Planning for policy implementation TT UF Strategic planning BT Policy making DEF Preparing strategies and planning how to put policy into practice SN EXAMPLE: Developing conservation management strategies and plans, workforce planning to ensure that there are sufficient skilled people to run business and government, infrastructure planning EXCLUDES: carrying out the plans, for which use other functions as appropriate. Excludes developing procedures, see 'Rulemaking, Developing service delivery procedures' Policing TT USE Preventing crime Policy making TT NT Consulting on policy NT Creating draft policy NT Evaluating policy NT Exploring policy options NT Finalising policy NT Planning for policy implementation DEF Creating or reviewing strategies and directions for the future, that apply OUTSIDE the creating organisation(s) SN INCLUDES: Includes policy making at Cabinet level, developing policy at all levels within an organisation. EXCLUDES: Restructuring, even between agencies - see 'Administering government, Structuring government, Restructuring government sector', excludes monitoring the implementation of policy, excludes 'how to' guidelines, see 'Rulemaking, Developing service delivery procedures' or 'Administering Government, Ensuring accountability, Developing government sector procedures' Preparing budget estimates TT USE Managing the budget cycle Preparing court cases TT USE Conducting legal hearings Preparing economic and fiscal updates TT USE Managing the budget cycle Prescribing TT USE Treating medical conditions Preserving heritage TT USE Protecting heritage Preserving the environment TT USE Conserving the environment Preventing crime TT UF Community policing UF Policing BT Ensuring public safety DEF Carrying out activities which protect people and their property from harm by other people SN EXAMPLES: Community policing, local patrolling, teen policing, providing and monitoring security cameras, neighbourhood watch. EXCLUDES educating the public about crime, see 'Informing, publicising' for campaigns and/or 'Enabling, Educating, Teaching' Preventing self harm TT USE Promoting good health Printing money TT USE Issuing currency Privatising TT BT Structuring government RT Managing public assets RT Nationalising DEF Selling a functioning organisation, or part of an organisation, usually as a going concern SN EXAMPLE: Selling Terralink EXCLUDES: Buying and selling property Processing applications for entry to New Zealand TT USE Controlling immigration Processing information TT USE Maintaining information Procurement TT USE Centralised purchasing USE Financial management (Internal) USE Purchasing services for the public Promoting good health TT UF Encouraging safe health practices UF Preventing self harm UF Promoting mental health UF Promoting physical health BT Providing public health services DEF Undertaking sector-based programmes to improve the health of people by altering behaviour SN EXAMPLES: Running the DARE programme, the Push Play programme, running youth suicide prevention programmes, running smoking cessation programmes Promoting mental health TT USE Promoting good health Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities TT UF Promoting participation in recreational and sporting activities UF Running events BT Enriching DEF Promoting the benefits of taking part in or attending cultural, recreational and sporting activities. This may be carried out by advertising or by running events SN EXAMPLES: Wellington City Council promoting recreational activities for women, running Summer City Programmes Promoting participation in recreational and sporting activities TT USE Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities Promoting participation in society TT UF Rehabilitating BT Enabling NT Encouraging participation in the community NT Providing personal advice DEF Promoting positive and integrated social development of people into family, peer, school, work and community environments. SN EXAMPLES: Migrant and refugee support programmes, interpreting for migrants, building self-esteem programmes (elderly, youth, disadvantaged) Promoting physical health TT USE Promoting good health Promoting tourism TT USE Promoting trade Promoting trade TT UF Promoting tourism BT Facilitating business development DEF Promoting trade in goods and services both internationally and within New Zealand, supporting exporters, carrying out generic marketing of New Zealand as a tourist destination to benefit the industry as a whole, promoting tourism and promoting education for foreign students SN INCLUDES: Holding Trade Fairs, making tourism promotions Promulgating laws TT UF Assenting to legislation UF Enacting legislation BT Legislating in Parliament DEF Signing of passed legislation into law by the monarch or their representative, the Governor General Property management TT USE Administration (Internal) Protecting TT NT Border control NT Conserving the environment NT Controlling unwanted organisms NT Ensuring personal health NT Ensuring public safety NT Granting citizenship NT Managing consumption of resources NT Protecting business NT Protecting heritage NT Providing protective care for the vulnerable NT Providing public health services NT Providing records of personal identity DEF Protecting people, communities, businesses and the environment from harm, minimising adverse impacts on them now and in the future and restoring them Protecting business TT UF Protecting industry BT Protecting RT Subsidising businesses DEF Protecting business from overseas competition SN NOTE: It is illegal to protect business at a local or regional level from other businesses operating in New Zealand (Commerce Act) Protecting heritage TT UF Conserving heritage UF Preserving heritage BT Protecting RT Building informative collections DEF Acting to ensure the safety of historic and cultural resources and minimise their loss or deterioration SN EXAMPLES: Preserving library and museum items including military museum items, archives, historic buildings and archaeological sites, the preservation work of the War Graves division of Internal Affairs Protecting individual species TT UF Operating breeding programmes for endangered species UF Redistributing species BT Conserving the environment RT Containing non-human pests and diseases RT Exterminating non-human pests and diseases DEF Carrying out activities to protect indigenous, native and game species Protecting industry TT USE Protecting business Protecting the environment TT USE Conserving the environment Providing access to information TT UF Distributing information BT Informing NT Answering information requests NT Creating finding aids NT Making information available NT Providing policy briefings NT Publicising NT Publishing DEF Selecting and preparing information for distribution, using it to answer queries, making it available, or distributing it Providing accident compensation TT USE Providing income support Providing accommodation TT USE Subsidising social services Providing accommodation supplements TT USE Subsidising social services Providing advice to community groups TT UF Advising UF Providing budgeting advice UF Providing legal advice BT Facilitating community development DEF Providing information and suggestions or recommendations to community groups on how to undertake an activity or reach a decision Providing aid to the civil power TT USE Providing emergency services Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities TT UF Facilities management UF Providing amenities for recreational and sporting activities BT Enriching DEF Operating and maintaining amenities or facilities for cultural, recreational and sporting activities SN EXAMPLE: Running booking systems for eg huts and tracks, maintaining and operating botanic gardens, visitor programmes, maintaining and running sports fields, playgrounds, swimming pools, running libraries, roadside plantings and other beautification programmes. EXCLUDES: constructing, building or physical maintenance of infrastructure - see 'Providing infrastructure, Building' and 'Providing infrastructure, Maintaining infrastructure systems' Providing amenities for recreational and sporting activities TT USE Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities Providing budgeting advice TT USE Providing advice to community groups USE Providing business advice USE Providing personal advice Providing business advice TT UF Advising UF Providing budgeting advice UF Providing legal advice BT Facilitating business development DEF Providing information and suggestions or recommendations to businesses on how to undertake an activity or reach a decision Providing career guidance TT UF Career counselling UF Career planning BT Optimising employment Providing chronic care TT BT Ensuring personal health DEF Providing care that is typically longer term and is intended to maintain or support individuals with chronic conditions or disabilities Providing civil defence TT USE Providing emergency services Providing clinical services TT USE Treating medical conditions Providing diplomatic services TT BT Representing New Zealand internationally DEF Providing an official New Zealand presence in other countries Providing emergency accommodation TT USE Subsidising social services Providing emergency services TT UF Delivering civil defence UF Emergency management UF Providing aid to the civil power UF Providing civil defence BT Ensuring public safety RT Maintaining ecosystems DEF Voluntary, civil and military agencies providing swift response to imminent and actual accidents, incidents and emergencies to minimize harm SN EXAMPLES: Providing ambulances, fire services, search and rescue, civil defence. Also includes declaring a state of civil emergency, providing cyclone relief in the Pacific Islands and in New Zealand, the military providing an Accident Fire Service in Waiouru. Covers both emergency service readiness and the delivery of services Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities TT UF Providing funding for recreational and sporting activities UF Sponsoring BT Enriching DEF Giving money to people or organisations to provide, participate in or attend cultural, recreational or sporting activities SN EXAMPLES: Sponsoring festivals or sporting events. Providing grants to artists and athletes, to the symphony orchestra, or the ballet. Some of the grants made by the Lottery Grants Board. Katherine Mansfield scholarship. EXCLUDES: purchasing services - see 'Administering government, Centralised purchasing' and 'Administering government, Purchasing services' Providing funding for recreational and sporting activities TT USE Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities Providing housing TT USE Subsidising social services Providing income support TT UF Compensating for lost earnings UF Paying welfare benefits UF Providing accident compensation UF Providing personal income compensation UF Providing social security entitlements UF Supplementing individual and family incomes BT Subsidising individual and family income DEF For those who qualify for assistance, paying welfare benefits and supplementary allowances and compensating for lost earnings SN EXAMPLES: Providing unemployment benefits, caregiver allowances (for caring for children, the sick and disabled), widow/widower benefits, retirement benefits, emergency benefits, including those for the self employed Providing infrastructure TT NT Building NT Decommissioning infrastructure NT Establishing infrastructure systems NT Establishing monetary control mechanisms NT Identifying locations NT Maintaining infrastructure systems DEF Ensuring the underlying foundation exists to enable the country to operate. SN EXCLUDES: funding, see 'Administering government, Managing public finances, Managing budget cycle ', excludes providing open spaces, see 'Enriching, providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities', excludes flood control/preventative works, see 'Protecting, Ensuring public safety, Mitigating hazards' Providing legal advice TT USE Providing advice to community groups USE Providing business advice USE Providing personal advice Providing military logistic support TT BT Conducting military operations Providing palliative care TT BT Ensuring personal health DEF Providing non-curative but supportive medical care for people with terminal or life-threatening illnesses Providing pathology services TT USE Medical testing and diagnosing Providing personal advice TT UF Advising UF Counselling UF Providing budgeting advice UF Providing legal advice BT Promoting participation in society DEF Providing information and suggestions or recommendations to individuals on how to undertake an activity or reach a decision Providing personal income compensation TT USE Providing income support Providing policy briefings TT UF Advising UF Advising ministers BT Providing access to information DEF Briefing ministers, elected representatives, Mayors and councillors and officials on existing policy SN EXCLUDES: providing advice to the public or to other agencies (use 'Answering information requests') Providing protective care for the vulnerable TT BT Protecting NT Adopting NT Providing residential care NT Supporting community care DEF Making arrangements for and delivering safe care for people who are not fully able to care for themselves Providing public health services TT UF Ensuring public health BT Protecting NT Disposing of animal remains NT Disposing of human remains NT Disposing of waste NT Immunising people NT Promoting good health NT Reducing health risks to people NT Screening for disease DEF Protecting and improving community health, where the focus is on a sector of the community rather than the individual. The activity is usually initiated by the health service provider, not individuals. The object is to prevent illness or intervene to minimise illness SN EXAMPLES: Restoring contaminated sites, providing immunisation programmes, running screening programmes, controlling pests and diseases that are hazardous to humans, managing substances and new organisms that are hazardous to humans, invoking emergency powers under the Health Act, immunising, reducing smoking, collecting rubbish Providing records of personal identity TT BT Protecting NT Supplying identity documents NT Supplying travel documents DEF Supplying and authenticating documents relating to the identity of New Zealand citizens or residents Providing residential care TT BT Providing protective care for the vulnerable DEF Running accommodation and providing supervised care for people who are unable fully to care for themselves Providing secretariat TT UF Administrative support of other government agencies BT Administering government DEF Providing administrative support to other government organisations, committees and elected bodies SN INCLUDES: Recording proceedings, running meetings of elected bodies. Servicing carried out by Lottery Grants division of Internal Affairs, providing secretariat of Representation Commission and Overseas Investment Commission, services provided to visiting dignitaries EXCLUDES: providing administrative or secretariat services to non-government organisations, community groups etc - see 'Enabling, Facilitating community development, Providing services to community groups' Providing services to community groups TT BT Facilitating community development DEF Supporting local community initiatives by providing facilities, amenities, administrative support - support of all kinds except funding. SN EXAMPLES: Providing facilities at a 'peppercorn rental', providing administration support to community groups, supporting local community initiatives such as Project Crimson and the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary Providing social security entitlements TT USE Providing income support Public expenditure TT USE Managing the budget cycle Public sector assurance TT USE Risk management (Internal) Publicising TT UF Advertising UF Making speeches UF Marketing BT Providing access to information DEF Actively promoting or advertising government activity, bringing it to public notice SN EXAMPLES: Creating publicity or information campaigns, issuing press releases, advertising, giving speeches (at conferences etc) Publishing TT BT Providing access to information DEF Issuing information to the public in paper or electronic formats Punishing TT USE Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies Purchasing services for the public TT UF Contracting out UF E-procurement UF Outsourcing UF Procurement UF Tendering BT Managing public finances DEF Individual agencies purchasing services from providers to deliver outputs to the public Quantitative analysis TT USE Analysing information Quarantining TT USE Containing non-human pests and diseases Rating property TT USE Revenue gathering Rationalising government structures TT USE Restructuring government sector Rationing TT USE Allocating resource Realigning government structures TT USE Restructuring government sector Recognising competencies TT USE Accrediting Recognising diplomatic credentials TT BT Representing New Zealand internationally DEF Formally recognising diplomatic representatives from other countries SN Need not be in New Zealand, but have been assigned coverage by their country (e.g. could be in Australia) Record keeping TT USE Information management (Internal) Recruiting TT USE Appointing to senior or statutory positions USE Human resource management (Internal) Recycling TT USE Disposing of waste Redistributing species TT USE Enhancing ecosystems USE Protecting individual species Reducing health risks to people TT UF Encouraging safe health practices UF Making the environment safe BT Providing public health services RT Controlling unwanted organisms RT Excluding unwanted organisms DEF Undertaking programmes to maintain and improve the safety of people's living and working environments SN EXAMPLES: Fluoridation, treating water supply, ensuring child safety, occupational safety, industrial safety, transport safety, cleaning up contamination, running clean air programmes, preventing contamination of water supply, eradicating or limiting organisms that spread diseases to people, cleaning up or containing toxic chemical spills Referring patients TT USE Treating medical conditions Regional development TT USE Attracting businesses Registering TT UF Credentialling UF Enrolling UF Licensing UF Warranting BT Authorising DEF (1) Making an official record of information about a person or thing, and (2) giving official permission to an individual or organisation to undertake an activity, usually after demonstrating fitness or competence. Includes refusing to register or license SN EXAMPLES: Registering a birth or death, registering a patent, trademark or plant variety, registering a motor vehicle, registering political parties and party logos, enrolling voters, licensing marriage, licensing premises [eg a casino] licensing gaming machines, pharmaceuticals, registering a bank, registering securities, registering bird-banding operators, licensing breeders of native birds, registering honorary rangers. EXCLUDES: Taking an appeal against refusal to grant a permit, see 'Upholding the rules, Ensuring compliance, Conducting legal hearings'. NOTE: Licensing and registering have been combined to overcome problems arising from two separate meanings of the word 'registering', one of which is interchangeable with licensing. Definition 2 implies the right to undertake the activity on an ongoing basis. Regulating TT USE Rulemaking Rehabilitating TT USE Promoting participation in society USE Treating medical conditions Remanding in custody TT USE Detaining Repairing buildings and amenities TT USE Maintaining buildings and amenities Representing TT NT Interest group advocacy NT Maintaining electoral process NT Representing constituents NT Representing New Zealand internationally DEF Providing the democratic process for electing citizens to public office. Providing a mechanism to represent New Zealand officially overseas. Providing a means of representing the interests of specific groups in the community. SN EXCLUDES: enrolling voters or registering political parties, see 'Authorising, Registering', excludes allocating election broadcasting time and funds to political parties, see 'Protecting, Managing consumption of resources' Representing constituents TT UF Representing ratepayers BT Representing NT Advocating for constituents NT Communicating with constituents DEF Identifying what the people you are elected to represent want and acting on their behalf Representing New Zealand internationally TT BT Representing NT International representation NT Providing diplomatic services NT Recognising diplomatic credentials DEF Conducting the government's business with foreign countries and their governments, and with international organisations overseas. Maintaining New Zealand's international relations. Representing ratepayers TT USE Representing constituents Researching TT BT Informing DEF Detailed study of a subject especially in order to discover new information or reach a new understanding SN Government carries out research, funds others to do research and does research in partnership with others EXCLUDES: applying research - this is dealt with under the appropriate functions Resolving disputes TT UF Arbitrating UF Mediating UF Settling claims BT Ensuring compliance DEF Making or recommending decisions about disputes, court cases or claims between parties (one of whom could be the Crown) SN INCLUDES: Waitangi Tribunal recommendations, criminal court cases, civil court cases, Family court conference decisions, judicial decision making Responding to official information requests TT USE Answering information requests Restricting movement of infected stock TT USE Containing non-human pests and diseases Restructuring government sector TT UF Amalgamating government agencies UF Establishing new government agencies UF Rationalising government structures UF Realigning government structures UF Setting up new government agencies BT Structuring government DEF Moving government functions between existing or to new government agencies, sharing functions under new arrangements, and setting up new government organisations to carry out specific identified functions. SN Local Government Commission restructuring local government Revegetation TT USE Enhancing ecosystems Revenue gathering TT UF Collecting revenue UF Levying UF Rating property UF Seigneuring UF Taxing BT Managing public finances DEF Gathering income for government by means of taxes, rates, and profit returns SN EXAMPLES: Collecting income tax, goods and services tax, fringe benefit tax, local body rates, consumption taxes such as tobacco and alcohol taxes, seigneuring (Reserve Bank) and imposing import tariffs. EXCLUDES: charges for services (recovery costs), eg the cost of sitting for a driver's licence Reviewing legislation TT USE Reviewing rules Reviewing rules TT UF Law reform UF Making submissions on legislation UF Reviewing legislation BT Rulemaking DEF Assessing the need for, and consulting on, existing or intended legislation or non-legislative rules SN INCLUDES: The Law Commission reviewing legislation, departmental reviewing of legislation administered by them, Select Committee reviewing of specific legislation. May include an element of consultation as to whether or not there is a need to change the law or non-legislative rules. Risk management (Internal) TT UF Auditing UF Disaster recovery planning UF Insuring UF Public sector assurance BT Corporate management (Internal) RT Managing public liabilities DEF Identifying possible financial and other risks within an agency and putting strategies in place to manage those risks, including insuring, internal auditing, and developing risk management strategies SN INCLUDES: insurance arrangements, business continuity arrangements, organisational liability management, monitoring contract performance Rulemaking TT UF Lawmaking UF Mandating UF Regulating NT Developing delegated legislation NT Developing service delivery procedures NT Legislating in Parliament NT Reviewing rules DEF Reviewing and consulting on existing or intended legislation. Drafting, passing and promulgating legislation. Developing the rules mandated by legislation and agreed policy. SN See also: 'Upholding the rules' Running commercial enterprises TT BT Administering government DEF Provision and sale of goods and services by government, usually for profit, in activities that could be undertaken by the private sector SN EXAMPLES: running Solid Energy, council owned quarries, some Crown Owned Companies, some Local Authority Trading Enterprises where they are not infrastructure. Commercial activities some local councils and government agencies undertake in competition with the private sector e.g. managing a forest, selling education services to foreign students Running events TT USE Holding official ceremonies USE Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities Screening for disease TT BT Providing public health services DEF Examining individuals in targeted sectors of the human population to detect the incidence of illnesses or of conditions that threaten human health SN EXAMPLES: Screening for melanoma, cervical cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, tuberculosis Searching out existing information TT BT Collecting information DEF Identifying information which has previously been collected, analysed and reported on and which will provide a background to a new piece of work SN EXAMPLE: literature reviews carried out to obtain background information Seconding staff TT USE Human resource management (Internal) Seeking secondary opinions on financial implications of policy TT USE Consulting on policy Seigneuring TT USE Revenue gathering Seizing goods TT USE Detaining Select committee hearings TT USE Drafting parliamentary legislation Selling assets TT USE Managing public assets Serving a removal order TT USE Deporting Setting accountability requirements TT BT Ensuring accountability DEF Establishing reporting processes to meet requirements of legislation or government policy SN Examples: Establishing purchase agreements, establishing appropriate reporting formats to meet requirements as defined under acts such as the Public Finance Act and the State Sector Act, Local Government Act, agency creating acts, establishing requirements to meet Treaty of Waitangi obligations Setting higher salaries TT USE External setting of remuneration Setting staff salaries TT USE Human resource management (Internal) Setting up new government agencies TT USE Restructuring government sector Settling claims TT USE Resolving disputes Sponsoring TT USE Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities Spying TT USE Intelligence gathering Storing information TT USE Maintaining information Strategic planning TT USE Planning for policy implementation Structuring government TT BT Administering government NT Appointing to senior or statutory positions NT Establishing judiciary NT Establishing representative bodies NT Establishing the Head of State NT External setting of remuneration NT Forming the government NT Nationalising NT Privatising NT Restructuring government sector DEF Determining the overall structure of government agencies and bodies, reviewing and changing the structure, allocating functions to agencies. Includes the Executive, the Judiciary, the legislature and Parliament Subsidising businesses TT UF Guaranteeing business loans UF Subsidising industry BT Assisting RT Protecting business DEF Helping businesses to maintain financial viability when adverse circumstances apply SN INCLUDES: Providing subsidies for existing business, eg rating rebates, reducing taxes, subsidising labour etc writing off loans, assisting some failing businesses Subsidising communities TT BT Assisting DEF Directly or indirectly subsidising disadvantaged communities or nations SN INCLUDES: providing financial assistance to other countries in times of adversity. May include assisting non-profit organisations working in communities Subsidising housing TT USE Subsidising social services Subsidising individual and family income TT BT Assisting NT Providing income support NT Subsidising social services NT Subsidising welfare loans DEF Providing supplementary income or subsidised services to people to bring them up to a minimum standard of living Subsidising industry TT USE Subsidising businesses Subsidising social services TT UF Paying medical treatment costs UF Providing accommodation UF Providing accommodation supplements UF Providing emergency accommodation UF Providing housing UF Subsidising housing BT Subsidising individual and family income DEF Providing personal or family support services at reduced or no cost for those who qualify for assistance SN INCLUDES: Subsidising health services, providing accommodation supplements, providing subsidised housing, subsidising support services for children and young people with disabilities, subsidising transport for people with disabilities, providing Legal Aid EXCLUDES: building accommodation and maintaining it, see 'Providing infrastructure, Building' and 'Providing infrastructure, Maintaining infrastructure systems, maintaining buildings' Subsidising welfare loans TT UF Guaranteeing welfare loans BT Subsidising individual and family income DEF Either providing or guaranteeing loans to cover personal or family costs to people who don't meet commercial lending criteria, and/or providing loans at subsidised or deferred interest rates SN EXAMPLES: housing loans, 'sweat equity', loans for school uniforms, emergency loans eg funeral loans EXCLUDES: Student loans - see 'Enabling, Educating, Funding individual study' Summonsing TT USE Conducting legal hearings Supervising punishment TT USE Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies Supplementing individual and family incomes TT USE Providing income support Supplying identity documents TT BT Providing records of personal identity DEF Supplying documents that are evidence of personal existence or status SN EXAMPLES: Supplying birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates. EXCLUDES: Registering births, marriages and deaths, see 'Authorising, Registering' Supplying travel documents TT UF Issuing emergency travel documents UF Issuing passports BT Providing records of personal identity DEF Supplying documents to enable New Zealand citizens or residents to travel overseas SN EXAMPLES: Issuing passports and emergency travel documents Supporting community care TT UF Committing under Mental Health Act BT Providing protective care for the vulnerable DEF Organising care arrangements for children and adults at risk of harm SN EXAMPLES: Removing at risk children from the home and finding them a care placement, fostering, committal of someone under the Mental Health Act, respite care for caregivers. EXCLUDES: Taking out protection orders, see 'Upholding the rules', excludes funding other organisations to provide care, see 'Administering government, Managing public finances, Purchasing services for the public' Surveillance TT USE Intelligence gathering Taxing TT USE Revenue gathering Teaching TT UF Coaching UF Delivering courses UF Instructing UF Mentoring BT Educating DEF Delivering any kind of training or teaching, including formal and informal instruction SN EXAMPLES: Training students, training teachers, training principals in management, on-line participation in learning. Delivering youth training, skill enhancement programmes, English for migrants Tendering TT USE Allocating resource USE Centralised purchasing USE Financial management (Internal) USE Purchasing services for the public Testing student skills TT USE Assessing student achievement Training TT USE Educating Treating medical conditions TT UF Nursing UF Performing surgery UF Prescribing UF Providing clinical services UF Referring patients UF Rehabilitating BT Ensuring personal health DEF Intervening to improve personal physical or mental function after disease or injury, or to treat biological conditions SN INCLUDES: Prescribing pharmaceuticals, nursing, providing dental care, providing medical care, maternity services etc, surgery, paediatrics, treating acute mental illness, treating drug overdoses etc. EXCLUDES: Palliative care, see 'Protecting, Ensuring personal health, Providing palliative care' Treating waste TT USE Disposing of waste Upholding the rules TT NT Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies NT Ensuring compliance NT Interpreting the law NT Monitoring compliance DEF Maintaining the framework under which society operates by promoting compliance with and enforcing the rules and providing a mechanism for disputes resolution Vaccinating animals TT USE Immunising animals Vaccinating people TT USE Immunising people Warranting TT USE Registering Writing bylaws TT USE Drafting delegated legislation Writing legislation TT USE Drafting parliamentary legislation Zoning TT USE Allocating resource