"Accessioning","Use","Creating finding aids"
"Accessioning","Use","Maintaining information"
"Accountability reporting","Broad Term","Ensuring accountability"
"Accountability reporting","Definition","Reporting outside the organisation as required by established accountability mechanisms, including reporting on obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi"
"Accountability reporting","Scope Note","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","Use","Ensuring accountability"
"Accounting","Use","Financial management (Internal)"
"Accounting","Use","Managing public finances"
"Accrediting","Used for","Approving courses"
"Accrediting","Used for","Certifying practitioners"
"Accrediting","Used for","Certifying services"
"Accrediting","Used for","Credentialling"
"Accrediting","Used for","Recognising competencies"
"Accrediting","Broad Term","Authorising"
"Accrediting","Definition","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"
"Accrediting","Scope Note","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","Use","Establishing infrastructure systems"
"Acquisitions","Use","Centralised purchasing"
"Acquisitions","Use","Financial management (Internal)"
"Administering consents","Use","Granting consents"
"Administering government","Narrow Term","Corporate management (Internal)"
"Administering government","Narrow Term","Ensuring accountability"
"Administering government","Narrow Term","Implementing Treaty of Waitangi"
"Administering government","Narrow Term","Managing public finances"
"Administering government","Narrow Term","Providing secretariat"
"Administering government","Narrow Term","Running commercial enterprises"
"Administering government","Narrow Term","Structuring government"
"Administering government","Definition","Ensuring that the government has the capacity to manage the country, and carrying out the administrative processes associated with managing the country"
"Administration (Internal)","Used for","Facilities management"
"Administration (Internal)","Used for","Property management"
"Administration (Internal)","Broad Term","Corporate management (Internal)"
"Administration (Internal)","Definition","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","Use","Providing secretariat"
"Adopting","Broad Term","Providing protective care for the vulnerable"
"Adopting","Definition","Arranging and approving adoptions"
"Advertising","Use","Publicising"
"Advising","Use","Answering information requests"
"Advising","Use","Providing advice to community groups"
"Advising","Use","Providing business advice"
"Advising","Use","Providing personal advice"
"Advising","Use","Providing policy briefings"
"Advising ministers","Use","Providing policy briefings"
"Advocating for constituents","Used for","Advocating for ratepayers"
"Advocating for constituents","Broad Term","Representing constituents"
"Advocating for interest groups","Use","Interest group advocacy"
"Advocating for ratepayers","Use","Advocating for constituents"
"Allocating budget","Use","Managing the budget cycle"
"Allocating resource","Used for","Rationing"
"Allocating resource","Used for","Tendering"
"Allocating resource","Used for","Zoning"
"Allocating resource","Broad Term","Managing consumption of resources"
"Allocating resource","Definition","Managing access to a resource through processes such as tendering, direct sale, waiting list management or some other means"
"Allocating resource","Scope Note","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","Use","Restructuring government sector"
"Analysing information","Used for","Charting"
"Analysing information","Used for","Converting data"
"Analysing information","Used for","Interpreting data"
"Analysing information","Used for","Mapping"
"Analysing information","Used for","Quantitative analysis"
"Analysing information","Broad Term","Informing"
"Analysing information","Definition","Interpreting data/information and converting it into usable content"
"Analysing information","Scope Note","INCLUDES: Creating reports, maps, charts, graphs, diagrams and statistical tables"
"Answering information requests","Used for","Advising"
"Answering information requests","Used for","Answering Mayorals"
"Answering information requests","Used for","Answering Ministerials"
"Answering information requests","Used for","Answering Prime Ministerials"
"Answering information requests","Used for","Answering queries from the public"
"Answering information requests","Used for","Responding to official information requests"
"Answering information requests","Broad Term","Providing access to information"
"Answering information requests","Definition","Providing information in response to specific requests"
"Answering information requests","Scope Note","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","Use","Answering information requests"
"Answering Ministerials","Use","Answering information requests"
"Answering Prime Ministerials","Use","Answering information requests"
"Answering queries from the public","Use","Answering information requests"
"Applying monetary sanctions","Used for","Fining"
"Applying monetary sanctions","Broad Term","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Applying monetary sanctions","Definition","Collecting fines or legal costs"
"Applying monetary sanctions","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Collecting fines and court directed costs, collecting reparation and infringement payments"
"Appointing Chief Executives","Use","Appointing to senior or statutory positions"
"Appointing judges to the bench","Use","Appointing to senior or statutory positions"
"Appointing to senior or statutory positions","Used for","Appointing Chief Executives"
"Appointing to senior or statutory positions","Used for","Appointing judges to the bench"
"Appointing to senior or statutory positions","Used for","Recruiting"
"Appointing to senior or statutory positions","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"Appointing to senior or statutory positions","Definition","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"
"Appointing to senior or statutory positions","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Appointments to the New Zealand Conservation Authority by the Minister of Conservation, appointing judges"
"Appropriations","Use","Managing the budget cycle"
"Approving courses","Use","Accrediting"
"Approving policy","Use","Finalising policy"
"Arbitrating","Use","Resolving disputes"
"Archiving","Use","Building informative collections"
"Archiving","Use","Maintaining information"
"Arresting","Use","Detaining"
"Assenting to legislation","Use","Promulgating laws"
"Assessing competency","Use","Assessing student achievement"
"Assessing student achievement","Used for","Assessing competency"
"Assessing student achievement","Used for","Examining student skills"
"Assessing student achievement","Used for","Testing student skills"
"Assessing student achievement","Broad Term","Educating"
"Asset sales","Use","Managing public assets"
"Assisting","Narrow Term","Subsidising businesses"
"Assisting","Narrow Term","Subsidising communities"
"Assisting","Narrow Term","Subsidising individual and family income"
"Assisting","Definition","Providing direct or indirect financial assistance in circumstances of adversity, to individuals, families, communities, business, industries or nations"
"Attracting businesses","Used for","Attracting industry"
"Attracting businesses","Used for","Regional development"
"Attracting businesses","Broad Term","Facilitating business development"
"Attracting businesses","Definition","Promoting New Zealand, and individual regions, as good places to set up business, and providing incentives to business"
"Attracting businesses","Scope Note","'Developing the economy' in local government terms, although this has a different meaning at central government level."
"Attracting industry","Use","Attracting businesses"
"Auditing","Use","Ensuring accountability"
"Auditing","Use","Managing public finances"
"Auditing","Use","Risk management (Internal)"
"Authenticating documents","Used for","Certifying documents"
"Authenticating documents","Used for","Notarising"
"Authenticating documents","Broad Term","Authorising"
"Authenticating documents","Definition","Legal certification by authorised officers that documents are a true and correct record or have been signed by a specific person"
"Authenticating documents","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: The work of Justices of the Peace in witnessing signatures"
"Authorising","Narrow Term","Accrediting"
"Authorising","Narrow Term","Authenticating documents"
"Authorising","Narrow Term","Granting consents"
"Authorising","Narrow Term","Registering"
"Authorising","Definition","(1) Officially recording information and (2) Giving official permission to carry out activities"
"Banning","Use","Censoring"
"Banning","Use","Enforcing legally required actions"
"Border control","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Border control","Narrow Term","Controlling immigration"
"Border control","Narrow Term","Excluding unwanted organisms"
"Border control","Related Term","Monitoring compliance"
"Border control","Definition","Controlling the passage of people, organisms, primary products and manufactured goods into the country"
"Borrowing by the Crown","Use","Managing public debt"
"Bringing delegated legislation into force","Used for","Gazetting delegated legislation"
"Bringing delegated legislation into force","Broad Term","Developing delegated legislation"
"Bringing delegated legislation into force","Definition","Carrying out the actions needed to adopt rules which have the force of law but which do not go through Parliament"
"Bringing delegated legislation into force","Scope Note","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","Use","Managing the budget cycle"
"Building","Used for","Constructing public works"
"Building","Broad Term","Providing infrastructure"
"Building","Definition","Constructing public works, public buildings, public amenities and state or council housing"
"Building","Scope Note","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","Used for","Archiving"
"Building informative collections","Broad Term","Collecting information"
"Building informative collections","Related Term","Protecting heritage"
"Building informative collections","Definition","Systematically gathering available resources to make a focused collection of objects or information"
"Building informative collections","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Making collections of written material, visual and audio material, cultural objects, artworks, animal plant and mineral specimens, historical material, artefacts"
"Burying animal remains","Use","Disposing of animal remains"
"Burying human remains","Use","Disposing of human remains"
"Career counselling","Use","Providing career guidance"
"Career planning","Use","Providing career guidance"
"Carrying out surveys","Use","Gathering data"
"Cataloguing","Use","Creating finding aids"
"Censoring","Used for","Banning"
"Censoring","Used for","Classifying"
"Censoring","Used for","Expurgating"
"Censoring","Broad Term","Ensuring public safety"
"Centralised purchasing","Used for","Acquisitions"
"Centralised purchasing","Used for","Collective tendering"
"Centralised purchasing","Used for","E-procurement"
"Centralised purchasing","Used for","Procurement"
"Centralised purchasing","Used for","Tendering"
"Centralised purchasing","Broad Term","Managing public finances"
"Centralised purchasing","Definition","Collective or externally controlled selection and contracting for goods and services"
"Centralised purchasing","Scope Note","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","Use","Authenticating documents"
"Certifying practitioners","Use","Accrediting"
"Certifying services","Use","Accrediting"
"Charting","Use","Analysing information"
"Classifying","Use","Censoring"
"Classifying","Use","Creating finding aids"
"Classifying","Use","Information management (Internal)"
"Coaching","Use","Teaching"
"Collecting data","Use","Gathering data"
"Collecting information","Used for","Gathering information"
"Collecting information","Broad Term","Informing"
"Collecting information","Narrow Term","Building informative collections"
"Collecting information","Narrow Term","Gathering data"
"Collecting information","Narrow Term","Searching out existing information"
"Collecting information","Definition","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","Use","Revenue gathering"
"Collective tendering","Use","Centralised purchasing"
"Committing under Mental Health Act","Use","Supporting community care"
"Communicating with constituents","Used for","Communicating with ratepayers"
"Communicating with constituents","Broad Term","Representing constituents"
"Communicating with constituents","Scope Note","EXCLUDES Ministerials, see 'Informing, Providing access to information, Answering information requests'"
"Communicating with ratepayers","Use","Communicating with constituents"
"Community policing","Use","Preventing crime"
"Compensating for lost earnings","Use","Providing income support"
"Compulsory purchase","Use","Establishing infrastructure systems"
"Conducting Court hearings","Use","Conducting legal hearings"
"Conducting legal hearings","Used for","Conducting Court hearings"
"Conducting legal hearings","Used for","Empanelling a jury"
"Conducting legal hearings","Used for","Hearing disputes"
"Conducting legal hearings","Used for","Holding a trial"
"Conducting legal hearings","Used for","Preparing court cases"
"Conducting legal hearings","Used for","Summonsing"
"Conducting legal hearings","Broad Term","Ensuring compliance"
"Conducting legal hearings","Definition","The process of preparing for and conducting a hearing, dispute or court case"
"Conducting legal hearings","Scope Note","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","Used for","Mobilising armed forces"
"Conducting military operations","Broad Term","Defending"
"Conducting military operations","Narrow Term","Fighting"
"Conducting military operations","Narrow Term","Patrolling"
"Conducting military operations","Narrow Term","Peacekeeping"
"Conducting military operations","Narrow Term","Providing military logistic support"
"Conducting military operations","Definition","Planning, deploying, sustaining and carrying out military operations"
"Conducting military operations","Scope Note","INCLUDES: low level conventional operations, combined operations"
"Conserving heritage","Use","Protecting heritage"
"Conserving the environment","Used for","Preserving the environment"
"Conserving the environment","Used for","Protecting the environment"
"Conserving the environment","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Conserving the environment","Narrow Term","Enhancing ecosystems"
"Conserving the environment","Narrow Term","Maintaining ecosystems"
"Conserving the environment","Narrow Term","Protecting individual species"
"Conserving the environment","Related Term","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Conserving the environment","Related Term","Exterminating non-human pests and diseases"
"Conserving the environment","Definition","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"
"Conserving the environment","Scope Note","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","Use","Building"
"Consulting on policy","Used for","Making submissions on policy"
"Consulting on policy","Used for","Seeking secondary opinions on financial implications of policy"
"Consulting on policy","Broad Term","Policy making"
"Consulting on policy","Definition","Seeking input from interested parties. Collating, analysing and presenting responses"
"Consulting on policy","Scope Note","INCLUDES: Inter-departmental consultation, sector consultation, public consultation"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Used for","Controlling non-human pests and diseases"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Used for","Issuing animal movement orders"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Used for","Quarantining"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Used for","Restricting movement of infected stock"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Broad Term","Controlling unwanted organisms"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Related Term","Conserving the environment"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Related Term","Enhancing ecosystems"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Related Term","Maintaining ecosystems"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Related Term","Protecting individual species"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Definition","Carrying out activities to limit the spread of pests and diseases"
"Containing non-human pests and diseases","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Restricting movement of stock, monitoring levels of pests, quarantining, running regular pest control maintenance programmes"
"Contracting out","Use","Financial management (Internal)"
"Contracting out","Use","Purchasing services for the public"
"Controlling immigration","Used for","Granting permanent residence"
"Controlling immigration","Used for","Issuing entry visas"
"Controlling immigration","Used for","Processing applications for entry to New Zealand"
"Controlling immigration","Broad Term","Border control"
"Controlling non-human pests and diseases","Use","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Controlling predators","Use","Enhancing ecosystems"
"Controlling predators","Use","Exterminating non-human pests and diseases"
"Controlling unwanted organisms","Used for","Pest control"
"Controlling unwanted organisms","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Controlling unwanted organisms","Narrow Term","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Controlling unwanted organisms","Narrow Term","Exterminating non-human pests and diseases"
"Controlling unwanted organisms","Narrow Term","Immunising animals"
"Controlling unwanted organisms","Related Term","Excluding unwanted organisms"
"Controlling unwanted organisms","Related Term","Reducing health risks to people"
"Controlling unwanted organisms","Definition","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","Use","Analysing information"
"Corporate management (Internal)","Broad Term","Administering government"
"Corporate management (Internal)","Narrow Term","Administration (Internal)"
"Corporate management (Internal)","Narrow Term","Financial management (Internal)"
"Corporate management (Internal)","Narrow Term","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Corporate management (Internal)","Narrow Term","Information management (Internal)"
"Corporate management (Internal)","Narrow Term","Risk management (Internal)"
"Corporate management (Internal)","Definition","Managing the organisation's own corporate body"
"Corporate management (Internal)","Scope Note","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","Use","Providing personal advice"
"Creating draft policy","Broad Term","Policy making"
"Creating draft policy","Definition","Analysing possible options and developing potential policy"
"Creating draft policy","Scope Note","INCLUDES: government green papers, Cabinet Papers, Cabinet minutes, Cabinet briefs EXCLUDES: carrying out information analysis and research, see 'Informing'"
"Creating finding aids","Used for","Accessioning"
"Creating finding aids","Used for","Cataloguing"
"Creating finding aids","Used for","Classifying"
"Creating finding aids","Used for","Creating metadata"
"Creating finding aids","Used for","Indexing"
"Creating finding aids","Broad Term","Providing access to information"
"Creating finding aids","Definition","Describing objects or information in a systematic way, and creating systems to search for and retrieve that information"
"Creating jobs","Broad Term","Optimising employment"
"Creating metadata","Use","Creating finding aids"
"Credentialling","Use","Accrediting"
"Credentialling","Use","Registering"
"Cremating","Use","Disposing of human remains"
"Decommissioning infrastructure","Used for","Disabling infrastructure"
"Decommissioning infrastructure","Used for","Disestablishing infrastructure"
"Decommissioning infrastructure","Used for","Mothballing infrastructure"
"Decommissioning infrastructure","Broad Term","Providing infrastructure"
"Decommissioning infrastructure","Definition","Removing infrastructure systems, structures or equipment from active use, either by demolition or by standing down from service"
"Decommissioning infrastructure","Scope Note","EXCLUDES: privatising, see 'Administering government, Structuring government, Privatising'"
"Defending","Narrow Term","Conducting military operations"
"Defending","Narrow Term","Developing international military relations"
"Defending","Narrow Term","Intelligence gathering"
"Defending","Narrow Term","Maintaining military readiness"
"Defending","Definition","Securing New Zealand against threat of force, protecting the security of strategic and national assets, meeting alliance commitments and contributing to global security"
"Delegating","Broad Term","Ensuring accountability"
"Delegating","Definition","Creating and maintaining formal delegation systems between elected bodies and government agencies"
"Delegating","Scope Note","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","Use","Providing emergency services"
"Delivering courses","Use","Teaching"
"Deporting","Used for","Serving a removal order"
"Deporting","Broad Term","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Deporting","Definition","Removing a non-citizen from New Zealand"
"Deporting","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: removing illegal migrants or residents who have served criminal sentences"
"Detaining","Used for","Arresting"
"Detaining","Used for","Distraining"
"Detaining","Used for","Granting bail"
"Detaining","Used for","Impounding"
"Detaining","Used for","Remanding in custody"
"Detaining","Used for","Seizing goods"
"Detaining","Broad Term","Ensuring compliance"
"Detaining","Definition","Temporary detention of people or property as part of an investigation, including during a hearing"
"Detaining","Scope Note","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","Use","Investigating incidents"
"Determining electoral boundaries","Broad Term","Maintaining electoral process"
"Determining electoral boundaries","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: The work of the Representation Commission"
"Determining legal sanctions and remedies","Used for","Pardoning"
"Determining legal sanctions and remedies","Broad Term","Ensuring compliance"
"Determining legal sanctions and remedies","Definition","Deciding an appropriate form of remedial action, eg punishment, reparation or sanction"
"Determining legal sanctions and remedies","Scope Note","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","Used for","Establishing a qualification"
"Determining qualifications framework","Broad Term","Educating"
"Determining qualifications framework","Definition","Determining which qualifications should become part of the national system, identifying pre-requisite requirements for specific qualifications, and agreeing to them"
"Determining qualifications framework","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Maintaining electoral process"
"Determining the electoral system","Definition","Setting up the electoral system and carrying out changes to the system to implement agreed policy and legislative change"
"Developing case law","Used for","Establishing legal precedents"
"Developing case law","Broad Term","Interpreting the law"
"Developing case law","Definition","Using previous judgments as precedents in court cases or as a basis for possible changes in the law"
"Developing case law","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Establishing precedents"
"Developing course material","Use","Developing educational resources"
"Developing courses","Broad Term","Educating"
"Developing courses","Scope Note","EXCLUDES: accrediting courses - see 'Authorising, Accrediting'"
"Developing curriculum","Broad Term","Educating"
"Developing curriculum","Scope Note","Excludes funding education"
"Developing delegated legislation","Broad Term","Rulemaking"
"Developing delegated legislation","Narrow Term","Bringing delegated legislation into force"
"Developing delegated legislation","Narrow Term","Drafting delegated legislation"
"Developing delegated legislation","Definition","Developing the rules outside of Parliament that have the force of law"
"Developing educational resources","Used for","Developing course material"
"Developing educational resources","Used for","Developing learning material"
"Developing educational resources","Used for","Developing learning resources"
"Developing educational resources","Used for","Developing teaching materials"
"Developing educational resources","Broad Term","Educating"
"Developing government sector procedures","Broad Term","Ensuring accountability"
"Developing government sector procedures","Definition","Creating administrative procedures which apply across government agencies"
"Developing government sector procedures","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Cabinet Manual, Treasury Instructions, State Services Commission guidelines, cross agency purchasing guidelines.  NOTE: These procedures are administrative, not operational"
"Developing international military relations","Used for","Making defence treaties"
"Developing international military relations","Broad Term","Defending"
"Developing international military relations","Definition","Negotiating and agreeing mutual defence arrangements with other countries"
"Developing international military relations","Scope Note","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","Use","Developing educational resources"
"Developing learning resources","Use","Developing educational resources"
"Developing legal opinions","Broad Term","Interpreting the law"
"Developing legal opinions","Definition","Creating formal statements on how the law may apply to a given situation"
"Developing legal opinions","Scope Note","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","Use","Drafting delegated legislation"
"Developing service delivery procedures","Broad Term","Rulemaking"
"Developing service delivery procedures","Definition","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."
"Developing service delivery procedures","Scope Note","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","Use","Developing educational resources"
"Disabling infrastructure","Use","Decommissioning infrastructure"
"Disaster recovery planning","Use","Mitigating hazards"
"Disaster recovery planning","Use","Risk management (Internal)"
"Disciplinary suspension","Use","Enforcing legally required actions"
"Disestablishing infrastructure","Use","Decommissioning infrastructure"
"Disinterring animal remains","Use","Disposing of animal remains"
"Disinterring human remains","Use","Disposing of human remains"
"Disposing of animal remains","Used for","Burying animal remains"
"Disposing of animal remains","Used for","Disinterring animal remains"
"Disposing of animal remains","Used for","Interring animal remains"
"Disposing of animal remains","Broad Term","Providing public health services"
"Disposing of animal remains","Definition","Burial, cremation or otherwise disposing of dead animals"
"Disposing of assets","Use","Managing public assets"
"Disposing of human remains","Used for","Burying human remains"
"Disposing of human remains","Used for","Cremating"
"Disposing of human remains","Used for","Disinterring human remains"
"Disposing of human remains","Used for","Interring human remains"
"Disposing of human remains","Broad Term","Providing public health services"
"Disposing of human remains","Definition","Burial or cremation of people after death"
"Disposing of waste","Used for","Recycling"
"Disposing of waste","Used for","Treating waste"
"Disposing of waste","Broad Term","Providing public health services"
"Disposing of waste","Definition","Collecting, treating and getting rid of waste and effluent"
"Disposing of waste","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Rubbish collection, waste disposal, managing stormwater runoff and treating sewage, hazardous waste disposal, operating landfills, recycling waste"
"Distraining","Use","Detaining"
"Distributing information","Use","Providing access to information"
"Drafting delegated legislation","Used for","Developing mandated standards"
"Drafting delegated legislation","Used for","Drafting Orders in Council"
"Drafting delegated legislation","Used for","Drafting statutory instruments"
"Drafting delegated legislation","Used for","Writing bylaws"
"Drafting delegated legislation","Broad Term","Developing delegated legislation"
"Drafting delegated legislation","Definition","Drafting rules which have the force of law but which do not go through Parliament"
"Drafting delegated legislation","Scope Note","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","Use","Drafting parliamentary legislation"
"Drafting Orders in Council","Use","Drafting delegated legislation"
"Drafting parliamentary legislation","Used for","Drafting instructions for legislation"
"Drafting parliamentary legislation","Used for","Select committee hearings"
"Drafting parliamentary legislation","Used for","Writing legislation"
"Drafting parliamentary legislation","Broad Term","Legislating in Parliament"
"Drafting parliamentary legislation","Definition","Drafting instructions for and drafting bills to go through Parliament, including Private Members Bills and Local Bills"
"Drafting statutory instruments","Use","Drafting delegated legislation"
"E-procurement","Use","Centralised purchasing"
"E-procurement","Use","Financial management (Internal)"
"E-procurement","Use","Purchasing services for the public"
"Educating","Used for","Training"
"Educating","Broad Term","Enabling"
"Educating","Narrow Term","Assessing student achievement"
"Educating","Narrow Term","Determining qualifications framework"
"Educating","Narrow Term","Developing courses"
"Educating","Narrow Term","Developing curriculum"
"Educating","Narrow Term","Developing educational resources"
"Educating","Narrow Term","Funding individual study"
"Educating","Narrow Term","Moderating student assessment system"
"Educating","Narrow Term","Teaching"
"Educating","Definition","Facilitating the development of, and providing, education and training"
"Educating","Scope Note","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","Use","Providing emergency services"
"Eminent domain","Use","Establishing infrastructure systems"
"Empanelling a jury","Use","Conducting legal hearings"
"Enabling","Narrow Term","Educating"
"Enabling","Narrow Term","Facilitating business development"
"Enabling","Narrow Term","Facilitating community development"
"Enabling","Narrow Term","Optimising employment"
"Enabling","Narrow Term","Promoting participation in society"
"Enabling","Definition","Providing or promoting opportunities to enhance the capability of individuals/families, communities, businesses/industries"
"Enacting legislation","Use","Promulgating laws"
"Encouraging participation in the community","Broad Term","Promoting participation in society"
"Encouraging participation in the community","Definition","Ensuring opportunities for people to participate fully in their social environment"
"Encouraging safe health practices","Use","Promoting good health"
"Encouraging safe health practices","Use","Reducing health risks to people"
"Enforcing custodial punishment","Used for","Imprisoning"
"Enforcing custodial punishment","Broad Term","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Enforcing custodial punishment","Definition","Monitoring and overseeing conditions that are custodial or have the potential to be custodial if conditions are not met"
"Enforcing custodial punishment","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Supervising prisoners, periodic detention, probationers, parolees, home detainees, diversion, suspended sentences"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Used for","Making reparation"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Used for","Punishing"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Used for","Supervising punishment"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Broad Term","Upholding the rules"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Narrow Term","Applying monetary sanctions"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Narrow Term","Deporting"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Narrow Term","Enforcing custodial punishment"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Narrow Term","Enforcing legally required actions"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Narrow Term","Extraditing"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Narrow Term","Granting parole"
"Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies","Definition","Ensuring that decided outcomes are carried out"
"Enforcing legally required actions","Used for","Banning"
"Enforcing legally required actions","Used for","Disciplinary suspension"
"Enforcing legally required actions","Used for","Expulsion"
"Enforcing legally required actions","Used for","Impounding"
"Enforcing legally required actions","Broad Term","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Enforcing legally required actions","Definition","Directing the carrying out of remedial or punitive actions which do not involve monetary sanctions or custodial punishments"
"Enforcing legally required actions","Scope Note","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","Used for","Controlling predators"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Used for","Establishing reserves"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Used for","Improving habitat"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Used for","Redistributing species"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Used for","Revegetation"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Broad Term","Conserving the environment"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Related Term","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Related Term","Exterminating non-human pests and diseases"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Definition","Carrying out activities to modify a habitat to a better state"
"Enhancing ecosystems","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Protecting offshore islands, establishing 'mainland islands'"
"Enlisting in armed forces","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Enriching","Narrow Term","Holding official ceremonies"
"Enriching","Narrow Term","Honouring individuals"
"Enriching","Narrow Term","Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities"
"Enriching","Narrow Term","Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities"
"Enriching","Narrow Term","Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities"
"Enriching","Definition","Developing and enhancing the capability of individuals, families and communities to participate in cultural, recreational and sporting activities."
"Enrolling","Use","Registering"
"Ensuring accountability","Used for","Accounting"
"Ensuring accountability","Used for","Auditing"
"Ensuring accountability","Broad Term","Administering government"
"Ensuring accountability","Narrow Term","Accountability reporting"
"Ensuring accountability","Narrow Term","Delegating"
"Ensuring accountability","Narrow Term","Developing government sector procedures"
"Ensuring accountability","Narrow Term","External auditing"
"Ensuring accountability","Narrow Term","Setting accountability requirements"
"Ensuring accountability","Definition","Setting up the requirements within which government bodies must act and monitoring their performance"
"Ensuring compliance","Broad Term","Upholding the rules"
"Ensuring compliance","Narrow Term","Conducting legal hearings"
"Ensuring compliance","Narrow Term","Detaining"
"Ensuring compliance","Narrow Term","Determining legal sanctions and remedies"
"Ensuring compliance","Narrow Term","Resolving disputes"
"Ensuring compliance","Definition","Applying due process of the law and determining outcomes"
"Ensuring personal health","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Ensuring personal health","Narrow Term","Medical testing and diagnosing"
"Ensuring personal health","Narrow Term","Providing chronic care"
"Ensuring personal health","Narrow Term","Providing palliative care"
"Ensuring personal health","Narrow Term","Treating medical conditions"
"Ensuring personal health","Definition","Providing health services to individuals and families"
"Ensuring personal health","Scope Note","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","Use","Providing public health services"
"Ensuring public safety","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Ensuring public safety","Narrow Term","Censoring"
"Ensuring public safety","Narrow Term","Mitigating hazards"
"Ensuring public safety","Narrow Term","Preventing crime"
"Ensuring public safety","Narrow Term","Providing emergency services"
"Ensuring public safety","Definition","Protecting the public from loss and injury"
"Ensuring public safety","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Aid to the civil power by  military forces and others"
"Eradicating non-human pests and diseases","Use","Exterminating non-human pests and diseases"
"Establishing a qualification","Use","Determining qualifications framework"
"Establishing available resource","Broad Term","Managing consumption of resources"
"Establishing available resource","Definition","Identifying the amount of a resource available for sharing out"
"Establishing available resource","Scope Note","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","Use","Establishing judiciary"
"Establishing infrastructure systems","Used for","Acquiring land for public works"
"Establishing infrastructure systems","Used for","Compulsory purchase"
"Establishing infrastructure systems","Used for","Eminent domain"
"Establishing infrastructure systems","Broad Term","Providing infrastructure"
"Establishing infrastructure systems","Definition","Designing, implementing and extending the coverage of systems and equipment in order to deliver infrastructure services"
"Establishing infrastructure systems","Scope Note","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","Used for","Establishing courts"
"Establishing judiciary","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"Establishing judiciary","Definition","Establishing the jurisdictional powers and hierarchy of the Courts and the status of the judiciary, as prescribed by convention and statute"
"Establishing legal precedents","Use","Developing case law"
"Establishing monetary control mechanisms","Broad Term","Providing infrastructure"
"Establishing monetary control mechanisms","Definition","Designing and extending the coverage of systems and instruments to implement monetary policy"
"Establishing new government agencies","Use","Restructuring government sector"
"Establishing representative bodies","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"Establishing representative bodies","Definition","Setting in place and providing for the continuing existence of Parliament, and of territorial authorities"
"Establishing representative bodies","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Parliament, Mayors and Councillors"
"Establishing reserves","Use","Enhancing ecosystems"
"Establishing reserves","Use","Maintaining ecosystems"
"Establishing the Head of State","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"Establishing the Head of State","Definition","Setting in place and providing for continuity of the Head of State and their representatives"
"Establishing the Head of State","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Transferring the functions of the monarch on their death, recommending Governor General"
"Evaluating policy","Broad Term","Policy making"
"Evaluating policy","Definition","Evaluating the effectiveness of policy implementation either by the implementing agency or an external agency"
"Evaluating policy","Scope Note","May well lead to the start of a fresh round of policy development"
"Examining student skills","Use","Assessing student achievement"
"Excluding unwanted organisms","Broad Term","Border control"
"Excluding unwanted organisms","Related Term","Controlling unwanted organisms"
"Excluding unwanted organisms","Related Term","Monitoring compliance"
"Excluding unwanted organisms","Related Term","Reducing health risks to people"
"Excluding unwanted organisms","Definition","Preventing introduction of pests and diseases affecting people, primary production, indigenous species or the environment"
"Excluding unwanted organisms","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Policy making"
"Exploring policy options","Definition","Identifying the need for policy and recommending possible directions for government to consider"
"Exploring policy options","Scope Note","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","Use","Enforcing legally required actions"
"Expurgating","Use","Censoring"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Used for","Controlling predators"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Used for","Eradicating non-human pests and diseases"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Used for","Pest destruction"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Broad Term","Controlling unwanted organisms"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Related Term","Conserving the environment"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Related Term","Enhancing ecosystems"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Related Term","Maintaining ecosystems"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Related Term","Protecting individual species"
"Exterminating non-human pests and diseases","Definition","Destroying unwanted organisms, including pests and disease vectors in a confined area, or from New Zealand"
"External auditing","Broad Term","Ensuring accountability"
"External auditing","Definition","Finance and performance auditing of government agencies by external auditors"
"External auditing","Scope Note","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","Used for","Setting higher salaries"
"External setting of remuneration","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"External setting of remuneration","Definition","Reviewing, recommending and setting the remuneration of senior or statutory positions from outside the agency that has those positions"
"External setting of remuneration","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Entities and mechanisms for conducting hearings and reviews"
"Extraditing","Broad Term","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Extraditing","Definition","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"
"Extraditing","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Extraditing illegal migrants or residents who have served sentences"
"Facilitating business development","Used for","Facilitating industry"
"Facilitating business development","Broad Term","Enabling"
"Facilitating business development","Narrow Term","Attracting businesses"
"Facilitating business development","Narrow Term","Funding business development"
"Facilitating business development","Narrow Term","Negotiating trade conditions"
"Facilitating business development","Narrow Term","Promoting trade"
"Facilitating business development","Narrow Term","Providing business advice"
"Facilitating business development","Definition","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","Broad Term","Enabling"
"Facilitating community development","Narrow Term","Funding community groups"
"Facilitating community development","Narrow Term","Providing advice to community groups"
"Facilitating community development","Narrow Term","Providing services to community groups"
"Facilitating community development","Definition","Increasing community self sufficiency by providing funding or services for local initiatives"
"Facilitating industry","Use","Facilitating business development"
"Facilitating job placements","Broad Term","Optimising employment"
"Facilitating job placements","Scope Note","Sometimes this is done by central and local government, as well as privately"
"Facilities management","Use","Administration (Internal)"
"Facilities management","Use","Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities"
"Fighting","Broad Term","Conducting military operations"
"Fighting","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Conducting low level conventional operations"
"Finalising policy","Used for","Approving policy"
"Finalising policy","Broad Term","Policy making"
"Finalising policy","Definition","Determining the shape of final policy and approving it"
"Finalising policy","Scope Note","INCLUDES: finalising and approving (seeking approval for) Cabinet policy"
"Financial management (Internal)","Used for","Accounting"
"Financial management (Internal)","Used for","Acquisitions"
"Financial management (Internal)","Used for","Contracting out"
"Financial management (Internal)","Used for","E-procurement"
"Financial management (Internal)","Used for","Outsourcing"
"Financial management (Internal)","Used for","Procurement"
"Financial management (Internal)","Used for","Tendering"
"Financial management (Internal)","Broad Term","Corporate management (Internal)"
"Financial management (Internal)","Definition","Running the financial internal control systems of an agency, including processing revenue and expenditure, maintaining a general ledger, and internal budgeting"
"Financial management (Internal)","Scope Note","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","Use","Applying monetary sanctions"
"Forming the government","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"Forming the government","Definition","Determining which political party or parties have the confidence of Parliament. Appointment of Prime Minister and ministers by Governor General"
"Forming the government","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Establishing a coalition government"
"Funding business development","Used for","Funding industrial development"
"Funding business development","Broad Term","Facilitating business development"
"Funding business development","Definition","Providing seed money, guaranteeing startup or expansion loans from banks, providing venture capital, funding research and development"
"Funding community groups","Used for","Guaranteeing loans to community groups"
"Funding community groups","Broad Term","Facilitating community development"
"Funding community groups","Definition","Providing grants, loans or loan guarantees to recognized community groups to fund local projects"
"Funding community groups","Scope Note","INCLUDES: projects which promote/increase community self sufficiency, building community capability. Includes provision of grants, loans and loan guarantees"
"Funding individual study","Broad Term","Educating"
"Funding individual study","Definition","Providing grants, scholarships or loans to assist individuals to undertake a recognised course of study"
"Funding individual study","Scope Note","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","Use","Funding business development"
"Gathering data","Used for","Carrying out surveys"
"Gathering data","Used for","Collecting data"
"Gathering data","Used for","Measuring"
"Gathering data","Broad Term","Collecting information"
"Gathering data","Definition","Collecting facts (especially quantitative facts) together for later analysis and use"
"Gathering data","Scope Note","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","Use","Collecting information"
"Gazetting delegated legislation","Use","Bringing delegated legislation into force"
"Government spending","Use","Managing the budget cycle"
"Granting bail","Use","Detaining"
"Granting citizenship","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Granting citizenship","Definition","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","Use","Granting consents"
"Granting consents","Used for","Administering consents"
"Granting consents","Used for","Granting commercial concessions"
"Granting consents","Used for","Issuing permits"
"Granting consents","Broad Term","Authorising"
"Granting consents","Definition","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"
"Granting consents","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Granting parole","Scope Note","This is not the same as supervising parole"
"Granting permanent residence","Use","Controlling immigration"
"Guaranteeing business loans","Use","Subsidising businesses"
"Guaranteeing loans to community groups","Use","Funding community groups"
"Guaranteeing welfare loans","Use","Subsidising welfare loans"
"Hearing disputes","Use","Conducting legal hearings"
"Holding a trial","Use","Conducting legal hearings"
"Holding elections","Used for","Overseeing voting in elections"
"Holding elections","Broad Term","Maintaining electoral process"
"Holding elections","Scope Note","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","Used for","Running events"
"Holding official ceremonies","Broad Term","Enriching"
"Holding official ceremonies","Definition","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"
"Holding official ceremonies","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: State ceremonies, the opening of Parliament, cultural ceremonies, investiture ceremonies, wreath laying, civic functions, citizenship ceremonies"
"Holding referenda","Used for","Overseeing voting in referenda"
"Holding referenda","Broad Term","Maintaining electoral process"
"Holding referenda","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) referendum"
"Honouring individuals","Broad Term","Enriching"
"Honouring individuals","Definition","Providing government recognition of individuals who have made contributions to New Zealand as a whole or to their own communities"
"Honouring individuals","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: The New Zealand Honours List, creating and maintaining memorials and statues, awarding medals, creating plaques for war graves"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Enlisting in armed forces"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Paying allowances"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Paying salaries"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Paying staff"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Paying wages"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Personnel management  (Internal)"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Recruiting"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Seconding staff"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Used for","Setting staff salaries"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Broad Term","Corporate management (Internal)"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Definition","Recruiting staff, setting remuneration levels, conditions of employment, training and development, and managing performance of all staff below Chief Executive level"
"Human resource management (Internal)","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Providing infrastructure"
"Identifying locations","Definition","Establishing and implementing common systems for naming or numbering physical features. Unique and non-unique identifiers for physical features"
"Identifying locations","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Establishing street and place names, the Global Positioning System."
"Immunising animals","Used for","Innoculating animals"
"Immunising animals","Used for","Vaccinating animals"
"Immunising animals","Broad Term","Controlling unwanted organisms"
"Immunising animals","Scope Note","EXCLUDES: controlling human diseases - see 'Protecting, Providing personal health services' and 'Protecting, Providing public health"
"Immunising people","Used for","Innoculating people"
"Immunising people","Used for","Vaccinating people"
"Immunising people","Broad Term","Providing public health services"
"Implementing monetary policy","Broad Term","Maintaining infrastructure systems"
"Implementing monetary policy","Definition","Taking action to affect monetary and other financial conditions"
"Implementing monetary policy","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: setting the official cash rate, inflation control, delivering price stability, setting inflation policy targets"
"Implementing Treaty of Waitangi","Broad Term","Administering government"
"Implementing Treaty of Waitangi","Definition","Carrying out measures which implement the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi"
"Implementing Treaty of Waitangi","Scope Note","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","Use","Detaining"
"Impounding","Use","Enforcing legally required actions"
"Imprisoning","Use","Enforcing custodial punishment"
"Improving habitat","Use","Enhancing ecosystems"
"Indexing","Use","Creating finding aids"
"Information management (Internal)","Used for","Classifying"
"Information management (Internal)","Used for","Knowledge management"
"Information management (Internal)","Used for","Record keeping"
"Information management (Internal)","Broad Term","Corporate management (Internal)"
"Information management (Internal)","Definition","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"
"Information management (Internal)","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Records management, Information technology - IT"
"Informing","Narrow Term","Analysing information"
"Informing","Narrow Term","Collecting information"
"Informing","Narrow Term","Maintaining information"
"Informing","Narrow Term","Providing access to information"
"Informing","Narrow Term","Researching"
"Informing","Definition","Discovering, collecting, processing, analysing, maintaining and disseminating information."
"Innoculating animals","Use","Immunising animals"
"Innoculating people","Use","Immunising people"
"Inspecting","Broad Term","Monitoring compliance"
"Inspecting","Definition","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."
"Inspecting","Scope Note","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","Use","Teaching"
"Insuring","Use","Risk management (Internal)"
"Intelligence gathering","Used for","Spying"
"Intelligence gathering","Used for","Surveillance"
"Intelligence gathering","Broad Term","Defending"
"Intelligence gathering","Definition","Collecting and analysing information on potential and actual threats to national security, including for economic and resource security"
"Intelligence gathering","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Identifying risks to national security"
"Interest group advocacy","Used for","Advocating for interest groups"
"Interest group advocacy","Broad Term","Representing"
"Interest group advocacy","Definition","Identifying the needs of a particular interest group and acting on their behalf"
"Interest group advocacy","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Representing New Zealand internationally"
"International representation","Definition","Representing New Zealand in international negotiations and at meetings of international organisations"
"International representation","Scope Note","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","Use","Analysing information"
"Interpreting the law","Broad Term","Upholding the rules"
"Interpreting the law","Narrow Term","Developing case law"
"Interpreting the law","Narrow Term","Developing legal opinions"
"Interpreting the law","Definition","Saying how the law may apply in particular circumstances"
"Interring animal remains","Use","Disposing of animal remains"
"Interring human remains","Use","Disposing of human remains"
"Investigating accidents","Use","Investigating incidents"
"Investigating breaches","Use","Investigating incidents"
"Investigating incidents","Used for","Detecting"
"Investigating incidents","Used for","Investigating accidents"
"Investigating incidents","Used for","Investigating breaches"
"Investigating incidents","Broad Term","Monitoring compliance"
"Investigating incidents","Related Term","Mitigating hazards"
"Investigating incidents","Definition","Reactive, probing the circumstances around a particular incident to discover whether a breach of the rules has been committed"
"Investigating incidents","Scope Note","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","Use","Managing public assets"
"Issuing animal movement orders","Use","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Issuing currency","Used for","Minting"
"Issuing currency","Used for","Printing money"
"Issuing currency","Broad Term","Maintaining infrastructure systems"
"Issuing emergency travel documents","Use","Supplying travel documents"
"Issuing entry visas","Use","Controlling immigration"
"Issuing passports","Use","Supplying travel documents"
"Issuing permits","Use","Granting consents"
"Knowledge management","Use","Information management (Internal)"
"Law reform","Use","Reviewing rules"
"Lawmaking","Use","Rulemaking"
"Legislating in Parliament","Broad Term","Rulemaking"
"Legislating in Parliament","Narrow Term","Drafting parliamentary legislation"
"Legislating in Parliament","Narrow Term","Passing parliamentary legislation"
"Legislating in Parliament","Narrow Term","Promulgating laws"
"Legislating in Parliament","Definition","The process of drafting and passing legislation through Parliament"
"Levying","Use","Revenue gathering"
"Licensing","Use","Registering"
"Maintaining buildings and amenities","Used for","Repairing buildings and amenities"
"Maintaining buildings and amenities","Broad Term","Maintaining infrastructure systems"
"Maintaining buildings and amenities","Definition","Carrying out repairs, painting, updating building services"
"Maintaining ecosystems","Used for","Establishing reserves"
"Maintaining ecosystems","Used for","Maintaining habitat"
"Maintaining ecosystems","Broad Term","Conserving the environment"
"Maintaining ecosystems","Related Term","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Maintaining ecosystems","Related Term","Exterminating non-human pests and diseases"
"Maintaining ecosystems","Related Term","Providing emergency services"
"Maintaining ecosystems","Definition","Carrying out activities necessary to protect habitat from further deterioration"
"Maintaining ecosystems","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Excluding weeds, maintaining water levels, cleaning up environmental contamination such as oil spills"
"Maintaining electoral process","Broad Term","Representing"
"Maintaining electoral process","Narrow Term","Determining electoral boundaries"
"Maintaining electoral process","Narrow Term","Determining the electoral system"
"Maintaining electoral process","Narrow Term","Holding elections"
"Maintaining electoral process","Narrow Term","Holding referenda"
"Maintaining electoral process","Definition","Providing the framework to enable voters to vote"
"Maintaining habitat","Use","Maintaining ecosystems"
"Maintaining information","Used for","Accessioning"
"Maintaining information","Used for","Archiving"
"Maintaining information","Used for","Processing information"
"Maintaining information","Used for","Storing information"
"Maintaining information","Broad Term","Informing"
"Maintaining information","Definition","Storing and managing collected information to retain accuracy, confidentiality, authenticity and usefulness and to prevent degradation"
"Maintaining information","Scope Note","EXCLUDES: Describing it to help others find it, see 'Informing, Providing access to information, Creating finding aids'"
"Maintaining infrastructure systems","Broad Term","Providing infrastructure"
"Maintaining infrastructure systems","Narrow Term","Implementing monetary policy"
"Maintaining infrastructure systems","Narrow Term","Issuing currency"
"Maintaining infrastructure systems","Narrow Term","Maintaining buildings and amenities"
"Maintaining infrastructure systems","Narrow Term","Maintaining networks"
"Maintaining infrastructure systems","Narrow Term","Managing foreign exchange"
"Maintaining infrastructure systems","Narrow Term","Overseeing the financial system"
"Maintaining infrastructure systems","Definition","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","Broad Term","Defending"
"Maintaining military readiness","Definition","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"
"Maintaining military readiness","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Maintaining infrastructure systems"
"Maintaining networks","Definition","Monitoring and operating existing networks to ensure they continue to work effectively"
"Maintaining networks","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Investigating radio frequency interference"
"Making defence treaties","Use","Developing international military relations"
"Making information available","Broad Term","Providing access to information"
"Making information available","Definition","Ensuring information available for public inspection or use without distributing it"
"Making information available","Scope Note","INCLUDES: making electoral rolls available, providing read-only access to Statistics New Zealand databases, providing access to a database through a website."
"Making reparation","Use","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Making speeches","Use","Publicising"
"Making submissions on legislation","Use","Passing parliamentary legislation"
"Making submissions on legislation","Use","Reviewing rules"
"Making submissions on policy","Use","Consulting on policy"
"Making the environment safe","Use","Reducing health risks to people"
"Managing consumption of resources","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Managing consumption of resources","Narrow Term","Allocating resource"
"Managing consumption of resources","Narrow Term","Establishing available resource"
"Managing consumption of resources","Definition","Limiting and/or sharing out the use of resources"
"Managing consumption of resources","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Maintaining infrastructure systems"
"Managing foreign exchange","Definition","Dealing in foreign exchange, fixing exchange rates"
"Managing public assets","Used for","Asset sales"
"Managing public assets","Used for","Disposing of assets"
"Managing public assets","Used for","Investing"
"Managing public assets","Used for","Selling assets"
"Managing public assets","Broad Term","Managing public finances"
"Managing public assets","Related Term","Privatising"
"Managing public assets","Definition","Managing assets and managing and investing cash, funds and unclaimed monies in New Zealand and overseas"
"Managing public assets","Scope Note","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","Used for","Borrowing by the Crown"
"Managing public debt","Broad Term","Managing public finances"
"Managing public debt","Definition","Borrowing money to finance government activities, and managing repayment of those loans"
"Managing public debt","Scope Note","INCLUDES: borrowing, including the work of the Reserve Bank acting as agent for Debt Management Office of Treasury"
"Managing public finances","Used for","Accounting"
"Managing public finances","Used for","Auditing"
"Managing public finances","Broad Term","Administering government"
"Managing public finances","Narrow Term","Centralised purchasing"
"Managing public finances","Narrow Term","Managing public assets"
"Managing public finances","Narrow Term","Managing public debt"
"Managing public finances","Narrow Term","Managing public liabilities"
"Managing public finances","Narrow Term","Managing the budget cycle"
"Managing public finances","Narrow Term","Purchasing services for the public"
"Managing public finances","Narrow Term","Revenue gathering"
"Managing public finances","Definition","Managing the processes by which government raises, manages and disburses funds, manages debts and assets and purchases services across government"
"Managing public liabilities","Broad Term","Managing public finances"
"Managing public liabilities","Related Term","Risk management (Internal)"
"Managing public liabilities","Definition","Identifying possible financial risks to government and putting strategies in place to manage those risks"
"Managing public liabilities","Scope Note","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","Used for","Allocating budget"
"Managing the budget cycle","Used for","Appropriations"
"Managing the budget cycle","Used for","Budget vote allocation"
"Managing the budget cycle","Used for","Government spending"
"Managing the budget cycle","Used for","Preparing budget estimates"
"Managing the budget cycle","Used for","Preparing economic and fiscal updates"
"Managing the budget cycle","Used for","Public expenditure"
"Managing the budget cycle","Broad Term","Managing public finances"
"Managing the budget cycle","Definition","Centralised process of estimating and allocating budgets, to which each agency contributes, and which is controlled by central agencies"
"Managing the budget cycle","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: carrying out budget/vote/appropriation rounds, providing Treasury secondary opinions, the Estimates process EXCLUDES: performing a service, managing the machinery of government"
"Mandating","Use","Rulemaking"
"Mapping","Use","Analysing information"
"Marketing","Use","Publicising"
"Measuring","Use","Gathering data"
"Mediating","Use","Resolving disputes"
"Medical testing and diagnosing","Used for","Providing pathology services"
"Medical testing and diagnosing","Broad Term","Ensuring personal health"
"Medical testing and diagnosing","Definition","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"
"Medical testing and diagnosing","Scope Note","EXCLUDES: Mass screening of populations for illnesses or conditions, see 'Protecting, Providing public health services, screening'"
"Mentoring","Use","Teaching"
"Minimizing harm","Use","Mitigating hazards"
"Minimizing natural disasters","Use","Mitigating hazards"
"Minting","Use","Issuing currency"
"Mitigating hazards","Used for","Disaster recovery planning"
"Mitigating hazards","Used for","Minimizing harm"
"Mitigating hazards","Used for","Minimizing natural disasters"
"Mitigating hazards","Broad Term","Ensuring public safety"
"Mitigating hazards","Related Term","Investigating incidents"
"Mitigating hazards","Definition","Preventing or reducing the potential impact of accidents, incidents and emergencies"
"Mitigating hazards","Scope Note","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","Use","Conducting military operations"
"Moderating student assessment system","Broad Term","Educating"
"Moderating student assessment system","Definition","Moderating within a school, moderating across schools, and checking the appropriate level of assessment"
"Monitoring compliance","Broad Term","Upholding the rules"
"Monitoring compliance","Narrow Term","Inspecting"
"Monitoring compliance","Narrow Term","Investigating incidents"
"Monitoring compliance","Related Term","Border control"
"Monitoring compliance","Related Term","Excluding unwanted organisms"
"Monitoring compliance","Definition","Checking to see whether rules have been complied with and investigating possible breaches"
"Mothballing infrastructure","Use","Decommissioning infrastructure"
"Nationalising","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"Nationalising","Related Term","Privatising"
"Nationalising","Definition","Converting from private to government ownership"
"Nationalising","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Buying back railways or electricity generation companies"
"Negotiating trade conditions","Broad Term","Facilitating business development"
"Negotiating trade conditions","Scope Note","INCLUDES: Negotiating international trade treaties"
"Notarising","Use","Authenticating documents"
"Nursing","Use","Treating medical conditions"
"Operating breeding programmes for endangered species","Use","Protecting individual species"
"Optimising employment","Broad Term","Enabling"
"Optimising employment","Narrow Term","Creating jobs"
"Optimising employment","Narrow Term","Facilitating job placements"
"Optimising employment","Narrow Term","Providing career guidance"
"Optimising employment","Definition","Ensuring the labour market operates to meet New Zealand's employment needs"
"Outsourcing","Use","Financial management (Internal)"
"Outsourcing","Use","Purchasing services for the public"
"Overseeing the financial system","Broad Term","Maintaining infrastructure systems"
"Overseeing the financial system","Definition","Supervising operations of banks to maintain a sound financial system, and providing central banking services to other banks"
"Overseeing the financial system","Scope Note","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","Use","Holding elections"
"Overseeing voting in referenda","Use","Holding referenda"
"Pardoning","Use","Determining legal sanctions and remedies"
"Passing parliamentary legislation","Used for","Making submissions on legislation"
"Passing parliamentary legislation","Broad Term","Legislating in Parliament"
"Passing parliamentary legislation","Definition","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"
"Passing parliamentary legislation","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Conducting military operations"
"Patrolling","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Maritime patrolling of the exclusive economic zone to make sure other nations do not access resources illegally"
"Paying allowances","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Paying medical treatment costs","Use","Subsidising social services"
"Paying salaries","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Paying staff","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Paying wages","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Paying welfare benefits","Use","Providing income support"
"Peacekeeping","Broad Term","Conducting military operations"
"Peacekeeping","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Monitoring elections overseas, peacekeeping duties in East Timor"
"Performing surgery","Use","Treating medical conditions"
"Personnel management  (Internal)","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Pest control","Use","Controlling unwanted organisms"
"Pest destruction","Use","Exterminating non-human pests and diseases"
"Planning for policy implementation","Used for","Strategic planning"
"Planning for policy implementation","Broad Term","Policy making"
"Planning for policy implementation","Definition","Preparing strategies and planning how to put policy into practice"
"Planning for policy implementation","Scope Note","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","Use","Preventing crime"
"Policy making","Narrow Term","Consulting on policy"
"Policy making","Narrow Term","Creating draft policy"
"Policy making","Narrow Term","Evaluating policy"
"Policy making","Narrow Term","Exploring policy options"
"Policy making","Narrow Term","Finalising policy"
"Policy making","Narrow Term","Planning for policy implementation"
"Policy making","Definition","Creating or reviewing strategies and directions for the future, that apply OUTSIDE the creating organisation(s)"
"Policy making","Scope Note","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","Use","Managing the budget cycle"
"Preparing court cases","Use","Conducting legal hearings"
"Preparing economic and fiscal updates","Use","Managing the budget cycle"
"Prescribing","Use","Treating medical conditions"
"Preserving heritage","Use","Protecting heritage"
"Preserving the environment","Use","Conserving the environment"
"Preventing crime","Used for","Community policing"
"Preventing crime","Used for","Policing"
"Preventing crime","Broad Term","Ensuring public safety"
"Preventing crime","Definition","Carrying out activities which protect people and their property from harm by other people"
"Preventing crime","Scope Note","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","Use","Promoting good health"
"Printing money","Use","Issuing currency"
"Privatising","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"Privatising","Related Term","Managing public assets"
"Privatising","Related Term","Nationalising"
"Privatising","Definition","Selling a functioning organisation, or part of an organisation, usually as a going concern"
"Privatising","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: Selling Terralink EXCLUDES: Buying and selling property"
"Processing applications for entry to New Zealand","Use","Controlling immigration"
"Processing information","Use","Maintaining information"
"Procurement","Use","Centralised purchasing"
"Procurement","Use","Financial management (Internal)"
"Procurement","Use","Purchasing services for the public"
"Promoting good health","Used for","Encouraging safe health practices"
"Promoting good health","Used for","Preventing self harm"
"Promoting good health","Used for","Promoting mental health"
"Promoting good health","Used for","Promoting physical health"
"Promoting good health","Broad Term","Providing public health services"
"Promoting good health","Definition","Undertaking sector-based programmes to improve the health of people by altering behaviour"
"Promoting good health","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Running the DARE programme, the Push Play programme, running youth suicide prevention programmes, running smoking cessation programmes"
"Promoting mental health","Use","Promoting good health"
"Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities","Used for","Promoting participation in recreational and sporting activities"
"Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities","Used for","Running events"
"Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities","Broad Term","Enriching"
"Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities","Definition","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"
"Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Wellington City Council promoting recreational activities for women, running Summer City Programmes"
"Promoting participation in recreational and sporting activities","Use","Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities"
"Promoting participation in society","Used for","Rehabilitating"
"Promoting participation in society","Broad Term","Enabling"
"Promoting participation in society","Narrow Term","Encouraging participation in the community"
"Promoting participation in society","Narrow Term","Providing personal advice"
"Promoting participation in society","Definition","Promoting positive and integrated social development of people into family, peer, school, work and community environments."
"Promoting participation in society","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Migrant and refugee support programmes, interpreting for migrants, building self-esteem programmes (elderly, youth, disadvantaged)"
"Promoting physical health","Use","Promoting good health"
"Promoting tourism","Use","Promoting trade"
"Promoting trade","Used for","Promoting tourism"
"Promoting trade","Broad Term","Facilitating business development"
"Promoting trade","Definition","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"
"Promoting trade","Scope Note","INCLUDES: Holding Trade Fairs, making tourism promotions"
"Promulgating laws","Used for","Assenting to legislation"
"Promulgating laws","Used for","Enacting legislation"
"Promulgating laws","Broad Term","Legislating in Parliament"
"Promulgating laws","Definition","Signing of passed legislation into law by the monarch or their representative, the Governor General"
"Property management","Use","Administration (Internal)"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Border control"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Conserving the environment"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Controlling unwanted organisms"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Ensuring personal health"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Ensuring public safety"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Granting citizenship"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Managing consumption of resources"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Protecting business"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Protecting heritage"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Providing protective care for the vulnerable"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Providing public health services"
"Protecting","Narrow Term","Providing records of personal identity"
"Protecting","Definition","Protecting people, communities, businesses and the environment from harm, minimising adverse impacts on them now and in the future and restoring them"
"Protecting business","Used for","Protecting industry"
"Protecting business","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Protecting business","Related Term","Subsidising businesses"
"Protecting business","Definition","Protecting business from overseas competition"
"Protecting business","Scope Note","NOTE: It is illegal to protect business at a local or regional level from other businesses operating in New Zealand (Commerce Act)"
"Protecting heritage","Used for","Conserving heritage"
"Protecting heritage","Used for","Preserving heritage"
"Protecting heritage","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Protecting heritage","Related Term","Building informative collections"
"Protecting heritage","Definition","Acting to ensure the safety of historic and cultural resources and minimise their loss or deterioration"
"Protecting heritage","Scope Note","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","Used for","Operating breeding programmes for endangered species"
"Protecting individual species","Used for","Redistributing species"
"Protecting individual species","Broad Term","Conserving the environment"
"Protecting individual species","Related Term","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Protecting individual species","Related Term","Exterminating non-human pests and diseases"
"Protecting individual species","Definition","Carrying out activities to protect indigenous, native and game species"
"Protecting industry","Use","Protecting business"
"Protecting the environment","Use","Conserving the environment"
"Providing access to information","Used for","Distributing information"
"Providing access to information","Broad Term","Informing"
"Providing access to information","Narrow Term","Answering information requests"
"Providing access to information","Narrow Term","Creating finding aids"
"Providing access to information","Narrow Term","Making information available"
"Providing access to information","Narrow Term","Providing policy briefings"
"Providing access to information","Narrow Term","Publicising"
"Providing access to information","Narrow Term","Publishing"
"Providing access to information","Definition","Selecting and preparing information for distribution, using it to answer queries, making it available, or distributing it"
"Providing accident compensation","Use","Providing income support"
"Providing accommodation","Use","Subsidising social services"
"Providing accommodation supplements","Use","Subsidising social services"
"Providing advice to community groups","Used for","Advising"
"Providing advice to community groups","Used for","Providing budgeting advice"
"Providing advice to community groups","Used for","Providing legal advice"
"Providing advice to community groups","Broad Term","Facilitating community development"
"Providing advice to community groups","Definition","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","Use","Providing emergency services"
"Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities","Used for","Facilities management"
"Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities","Used for","Providing amenities for recreational and sporting activities"
"Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities","Broad Term","Enriching"
"Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities","Definition","Operating and maintaining amenities or facilities for cultural, recreational and sporting activities"
"Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities","Scope Note","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","Use","Providing amenities for cultural and leisure activities"
"Providing budgeting advice","Use","Providing advice to community groups"
"Providing budgeting advice","Use","Providing business advice"
"Providing budgeting advice","Use","Providing personal advice"
"Providing business advice","Used for","Advising"
"Providing business advice","Used for","Providing budgeting advice"
"Providing business advice","Used for","Providing legal advice"
"Providing business advice","Broad Term","Facilitating business development"
"Providing business advice","Definition","Providing information and suggestions or recommendations to businesses on how to undertake an activity or reach a decision"
"Providing career guidance","Used for","Career counselling"
"Providing career guidance","Used for","Career planning"
"Providing career guidance","Broad Term","Optimising employment"
"Providing chronic care","Broad Term","Ensuring personal health"
"Providing chronic care","Definition","Providing care that is typically longer term and is intended to maintain or support individuals with chronic conditions or disabilities"
"Providing civil defence","Use","Providing emergency services"
"Providing clinical services","Use","Treating medical conditions"
"Providing diplomatic services","Broad Term","Representing New Zealand internationally"
"Providing diplomatic services","Definition","Providing an official New Zealand presence in other countries"
"Providing emergency accommodation","Use","Subsidising social services"
"Providing emergency services","Used for","Delivering civil defence"
"Providing emergency services","Used for","Emergency management"
"Providing emergency services","Used for","Providing aid to the civil power"
"Providing emergency services","Used for","Providing civil defence"
"Providing emergency services","Broad Term","Ensuring public safety"
"Providing emergency services","Related Term","Maintaining ecosystems"
"Providing emergency services","Definition","Voluntary, civil and military agencies providing swift response to imminent and actual accidents, incidents and emergencies to minimize harm"
"Providing emergency services","Scope Note","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","Used for","Providing funding for recreational and sporting activities"
"Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities","Used for","Sponsoring"
"Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities","Broad Term","Enriching"
"Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities","Definition","Giving money to people or organisations to provide, participate in or attend cultural, recreational or sporting activities"
"Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities","Scope Note","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","Use","Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities"
"Providing housing","Use","Subsidising social services"
"Providing income support","Used for","Compensating for lost earnings"
"Providing income support","Used for","Paying welfare benefits"
"Providing income support","Used for","Providing accident compensation"
"Providing income support","Used for","Providing personal income compensation"
"Providing income support","Used for","Providing social security entitlements"
"Providing income support","Used for","Supplementing individual and family incomes"
"Providing income support","Broad Term","Subsidising individual and family income"
"Providing income support","Definition","For those who qualify for assistance, paying welfare benefits and supplementary allowances and compensating for lost earnings"
"Providing income support","Scope Note","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","Narrow Term","Building"
"Providing infrastructure","Narrow Term","Decommissioning infrastructure"
"Providing infrastructure","Narrow Term","Establishing infrastructure systems"
"Providing infrastructure","Narrow Term","Establishing monetary control mechanisms"
"Providing infrastructure","Narrow Term","Identifying locations"
"Providing infrastructure","Narrow Term","Maintaining infrastructure systems"
"Providing infrastructure","Definition","Ensuring the underlying foundation exists to enable the country to operate."
"Providing infrastructure","Scope Note","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","Use","Providing advice to community groups"
"Providing legal advice","Use","Providing business advice"
"Providing legal advice","Use","Providing personal advice"
"Providing military logistic support","Broad Term","Conducting military operations"
"Providing palliative care","Broad Term","Ensuring personal health"
"Providing palliative care","Definition","Providing non-curative but supportive medical care for people with terminal or life-threatening illnesses"
"Providing pathology services","Use","Medical testing and diagnosing"
"Providing personal advice","Used for","Advising"
"Providing personal advice","Used for","Counselling"
"Providing personal advice","Used for","Providing budgeting advice"
"Providing personal advice","Used for","Providing legal advice"
"Providing personal advice","Broad Term","Promoting participation in society"
"Providing personal advice","Definition","Providing information and suggestions or recommendations to individuals on how to undertake an activity or reach a decision"
"Providing personal income compensation","Use","Providing income support"
"Providing policy briefings","Used for","Advising"
"Providing policy briefings","Used for","Advising ministers"
"Providing policy briefings","Broad Term","Providing access to information"
"Providing policy briefings","Definition","Briefing ministers, elected representatives, Mayors and councillors and officials on existing policy"
"Providing policy briefings","Scope Note","EXCLUDES: providing advice to the public or to other agencies (use 'Answering information requests')"
"Providing protective care for the vulnerable","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Providing protective care for the vulnerable","Narrow Term","Adopting"
"Providing protective care for the vulnerable","Narrow Term","Providing residential care"
"Providing protective care for the vulnerable","Narrow Term","Supporting community care"
"Providing protective care for the vulnerable","Definition","Making arrangements for and delivering safe care for people who are not fully able to care for themselves"
"Providing public health services","Used for","Ensuring public health"
"Providing public health services","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Providing public health services","Narrow Term","Disposing of animal remains"
"Providing public health services","Narrow Term","Disposing of human remains"
"Providing public health services","Narrow Term","Disposing of waste"
"Providing public health services","Narrow Term","Immunising people"
"Providing public health services","Narrow Term","Promoting good health"
"Providing public health services","Narrow Term","Reducing health risks to people"
"Providing public health services","Narrow Term","Screening for disease"
"Providing public health services","Definition","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"
"Providing public health services","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Protecting"
"Providing records of personal identity","Narrow Term","Supplying identity documents"
"Providing records of personal identity","Narrow Term","Supplying travel documents"
"Providing records of personal identity","Definition","Supplying and authenticating documents relating to the identity of New Zealand citizens or residents"
"Providing residential care","Broad Term","Providing protective care for the vulnerable"
"Providing residential care","Definition","Running accommodation and providing supervised care for people who are unable fully to care for themselves"
"Providing secretariat","Used for","Administrative support of other government agencies"
"Providing secretariat","Broad Term","Administering government"
"Providing secretariat","Definition","Providing administrative support to other government organisations, committees and elected bodies"
"Providing secretariat","Scope Note","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","Broad Term","Facilitating community development"
"Providing services to community groups","Definition","Supporting local community initiatives by providing facilities, amenities, administrative support - support of all kinds except funding."
"Providing services to community groups","Scope Note","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","Use","Providing income support"
"Public expenditure","Use","Managing the budget cycle"
"Public sector assurance","Use","Risk management (Internal)"
"Publicising","Used for","Advertising"
"Publicising","Used for","Making speeches"
"Publicising","Used for","Marketing"
"Publicising","Broad Term","Providing access to information"
"Publicising","Definition","Actively promoting or advertising government activity, bringing it to public notice"
"Publicising","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Creating publicity or information campaigns, issuing press releases, advertising, giving speeches (at conferences etc)"
"Publishing","Broad Term","Providing access to information"
"Publishing","Definition","Issuing information to the public in paper or electronic formats"
"Punishing","Use","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Purchasing services for the public","Used for","Contracting out"
"Purchasing services for the public","Used for","E-procurement"
"Purchasing services for the public","Used for","Outsourcing"
"Purchasing services for the public","Used for","Procurement"
"Purchasing services for the public","Used for","Tendering"
"Purchasing services for the public","Broad Term","Managing public finances"
"Purchasing services for the public","Definition","Individual agencies purchasing services from providers  to deliver outputs to the public"
"Quantitative analysis","Use","Analysing information"
"Quarantining","Use","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Rating property","Use","Revenue gathering"
"Rationalising government structures","Use","Restructuring government sector"
"Rationing","Use","Allocating resource"
"Realigning government structures","Use","Restructuring government sector"
"Recognising competencies","Use","Accrediting"
"Recognising diplomatic credentials","Broad Term","Representing New Zealand internationally"
"Recognising diplomatic credentials","Definition","Formally recognising diplomatic representatives from other countries"
"Recognising diplomatic credentials","Scope Note","Need not be in New Zealand, but have been assigned coverage by their country (e.g. could be in Australia)"
"Record keeping","Use","Information management (Internal)"
"Recruiting","Use","Appointing to senior or statutory positions"
"Recruiting","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Recycling","Use","Disposing of waste"
"Redistributing species","Use","Enhancing ecosystems"
"Redistributing species","Use","Protecting individual species"
"Reducing health risks to people","Used for","Encouraging safe health practices"
"Reducing health risks to people","Used for","Making the environment safe"
"Reducing health risks to people","Broad Term","Providing public health services"
"Reducing health risks to people","Related Term","Controlling unwanted organisms"
"Reducing health risks to people","Related Term","Excluding unwanted organisms"
"Reducing health risks to people","Definition","Undertaking programmes to maintain and improve the safety of people's living and working environments"
"Reducing health risks to people","Scope Note","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","Use","Treating medical conditions"
"Regional development","Use","Attracting businesses"
"Registering","Used for","Credentialling"
"Registering","Used for","Enrolling"
"Registering","Used for","Licensing"
"Registering","Used for","Warranting"
"Registering","Broad Term","Authorising"
"Registering","Definition","(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"
"Registering","Scope Note","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","Use","Rulemaking"
"Rehabilitating","Use","Promoting participation in society"
"Rehabilitating","Use","Treating medical conditions"
"Remanding in custody","Use","Detaining"
"Repairing buildings and amenities","Use","Maintaining buildings and amenities"
"Representing","Narrow Term","Interest group advocacy"
"Representing","Narrow Term","Maintaining electoral process"
"Representing","Narrow Term","Representing constituents"
"Representing","Narrow Term","Representing New Zealand internationally"
"Representing","Definition","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."
"Representing","Scope Note","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","Used for","Representing ratepayers"
"Representing constituents","Broad Term","Representing"
"Representing constituents","Narrow Term","Advocating for constituents"
"Representing constituents","Narrow Term","Communicating with constituents"
"Representing constituents","Definition","Identifying what the people you are elected to represent want and acting on their behalf"
"Representing New Zealand internationally","Broad Term","Representing"
"Representing New Zealand internationally","Narrow Term","International representation"
"Representing New Zealand internationally","Narrow Term","Providing diplomatic services"
"Representing New Zealand internationally","Narrow Term","Recognising diplomatic credentials"
"Representing New Zealand internationally","Definition","Conducting the government's business with foreign countries and their governments, and with international organisations overseas. Maintaining New Zealand's international relations."
"Representing ratepayers","Use","Representing constituents"
"Researching","Broad Term","Informing"
"Researching","Definition","Detailed study of a subject especially in order to discover new information or reach a new understanding"
"Researching","Scope Note","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","Used for","Arbitrating"
"Resolving disputes","Used for","Mediating"
"Resolving disputes","Used for","Settling claims"
"Resolving disputes","Broad Term","Ensuring compliance"
"Resolving disputes","Definition","Making or recommending decisions about disputes, court cases or claims between parties (one of whom could be the Crown)"
"Resolving disputes","Scope Note","INCLUDES: Waitangi Tribunal recommendations, criminal court cases, civil court cases, Family court conference decisions, judicial decision making"
"Responding to official information requests","Use","Answering information requests"
"Restricting movement of infected stock","Use","Containing non-human pests and diseases"
"Restructuring government sector","Used for","Amalgamating government agencies"
"Restructuring government sector","Used for","Establishing new government agencies"
"Restructuring government sector","Used for","Rationalising government structures"
"Restructuring government sector","Used for","Realigning government structures"
"Restructuring government sector","Used for","Setting up new government agencies"
"Restructuring government sector","Broad Term","Structuring government"
"Restructuring government sector","Definition","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."
"Restructuring government sector","Scope Note","Local Government Commission restructuring local government"
"Revegetation","Use","Enhancing ecosystems"
"Revenue gathering","Used for","Collecting revenue"
"Revenue gathering","Used for","Levying"
"Revenue gathering","Used for","Rating property"
"Revenue gathering","Used for","Seigneuring"
"Revenue gathering","Used for","Taxing"
"Revenue gathering","Broad Term","Managing public finances"
"Revenue gathering","Definition","Gathering income for government by means of taxes, rates, and profit returns"
"Revenue gathering","Scope Note","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","Use","Reviewing rules"
"Reviewing rules","Used for","Law reform"
"Reviewing rules","Used for","Making submissions on legislation"
"Reviewing rules","Used for","Reviewing legislation"
"Reviewing rules","Broad Term","Rulemaking"
"Reviewing rules","Definition","Assessing the need for, and consulting on, existing or intended legislation or non-legislative rules"
"Reviewing rules","Scope Note","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)","Used for","Auditing"
"Risk management (Internal)","Used for","Disaster recovery planning"
"Risk management (Internal)","Used for","Insuring"
"Risk management (Internal)","Used for","Public sector assurance"
"Risk management (Internal)","Broad Term","Corporate management (Internal)"
"Risk management (Internal)","Related Term","Managing public liabilities"
"Risk management (Internal)","Definition","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"
"Risk management (Internal)","Scope Note","INCLUDES: insurance arrangements, business continuity arrangements, organisational liability management, monitoring contract performance"
"Rulemaking","Used for","Lawmaking"
"Rulemaking","Used for","Mandating"
"Rulemaking","Used for","Regulating"
"Rulemaking","Narrow Term","Developing delegated legislation"
"Rulemaking","Narrow Term","Developing service delivery procedures"
"Rulemaking","Narrow Term","Legislating in Parliament"
"Rulemaking","Narrow Term","Reviewing rules"
"Rulemaking","Definition","Reviewing and consulting on existing or intended legislation.  Drafting, passing and promulgating legislation. Developing the rules mandated by legislation and agreed policy."
"Rulemaking","Scope Note","See also: 'Upholding the rules'"
"Running commercial enterprises","Broad Term","Administering government"
"Running commercial enterprises","Definition","Provision and sale of goods and services by government, usually for profit, in activities that could be undertaken by the private sector"
"Running commercial enterprises","Scope Note","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","Use","Holding official ceremonies"
"Running events","Use","Promoting participation in cultural and leisure activities"
"Screening for disease","Broad Term","Providing public health services"
"Screening for disease","Definition","Examining individuals in targeted sectors of the human population to detect the incidence of illnesses or of conditions that threaten human health"
"Screening for disease","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Screening for melanoma, cervical cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, tuberculosis"
"Searching out existing information","Broad Term","Collecting information"
"Searching out existing information","Definition","Identifying information which has previously been collected, analysed and reported on and which will provide a background to a new piece of work"
"Searching out existing information","Scope Note","EXAMPLE: literature reviews carried out to obtain background information"
"Seconding staff","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Seeking secondary opinions on financial implications of policy","Use","Consulting on policy"
"Seigneuring","Use","Revenue gathering"
"Seizing goods","Use","Detaining"
"Select committee hearings","Use","Drafting parliamentary legislation"
"Selling assets","Use","Managing public assets"
"Serving a removal order","Use","Deporting"
"Setting accountability requirements","Broad Term","Ensuring accountability"
"Setting accountability requirements","Definition","Establishing reporting processes to meet requirements of legislation or government policy"
"Setting accountability requirements","Scope Note","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","Use","External setting of remuneration"
"Setting staff salaries","Use","Human resource management (Internal)"
"Setting up new government agencies","Use","Restructuring government sector"
"Settling claims","Use","Resolving disputes"
"Sponsoring","Use","Providing funding for cultural and leisure activities"
"Spying","Use","Intelligence gathering"
"Storing information","Use","Maintaining information"
"Strategic planning","Use","Planning for policy implementation"
"Structuring government","Broad Term","Administering government"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","Appointing to senior or statutory positions"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","Establishing judiciary"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","Establishing representative bodies"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","Establishing the Head of State"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","External setting of remuneration"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","Forming the government"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","Nationalising"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","Privatising"
"Structuring government","Narrow Term","Restructuring government sector"
"Structuring government","Definition","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","Used for","Guaranteeing business loans"
"Subsidising businesses","Used for","Subsidising industry"
"Subsidising businesses","Broad Term","Assisting"
"Subsidising businesses","Related Term","Protecting business"
"Subsidising businesses","Definition","Helping businesses to maintain financial viability when adverse circumstances apply"
"Subsidising businesses","Scope Note","INCLUDES: Providing subsidies for existing business, eg rating rebates, reducing taxes, subsidising labour etc writing off loans, assisting some failing businesses"
"Subsidising communities","Broad Term","Assisting"
"Subsidising communities","Definition","Directly or indirectly subsidising disadvantaged communities or nations"
"Subsidising communities","Scope Note","INCLUDES: providing financial assistance to other countries in times of adversity. May include assisting non-profit organisations working in communities"
"Subsidising housing","Use","Subsidising social services"
"Subsidising individual and family income","Broad Term","Assisting"
"Subsidising individual and family income","Narrow Term","Providing income support"
"Subsidising individual and family income","Narrow Term","Subsidising social services"
"Subsidising individual and family income","Narrow Term","Subsidising welfare loans"
"Subsidising individual and family income","Definition","Providing supplementary income or subsidised services to people to bring them up to a minimum standard of living"
"Subsidising industry","Use","Subsidising businesses"
"Subsidising social services","Used for","Paying medical treatment costs"
"Subsidising social services","Used for","Providing accommodation"
"Subsidising social services","Used for","Providing accommodation supplements"
"Subsidising social services","Used for","Providing emergency accommodation"
"Subsidising social services","Used for","Providing housing"
"Subsidising social services","Used for","Subsidising housing"
"Subsidising social services","Broad Term","Subsidising individual and family income"
"Subsidising social services","Definition","Providing personal or family support services at reduced or no cost for those who qualify for assistance"
"Subsidising social services","Scope Note","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","Used for","Guaranteeing welfare loans"
"Subsidising welfare loans","Broad Term","Subsidising individual and family income"
"Subsidising welfare loans","Definition","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"
"Subsidising welfare loans","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: housing loans, 'sweat equity', loans for school uniforms, emergency loans eg funeral loans EXCLUDES: Student loans - see 'Enabling, Educating, Funding individual study'"
"Summonsing","Use","Conducting legal hearings"
"Supervising punishment","Use","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Supplementing individual and family incomes","Use","Providing income support"
"Supplying identity documents","Broad Term","Providing records of personal identity"
"Supplying identity documents","Definition","Supplying documents that are evidence of personal existence or status"
"Supplying identity documents","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Supplying birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates.  EXCLUDES: Registering births, marriages and deaths, see 'Authorising, Registering'"
"Supplying travel documents","Used for","Issuing emergency travel documents"
"Supplying travel documents","Used for","Issuing passports"
"Supplying travel documents","Broad Term","Providing records of personal identity"
"Supplying travel documents","Definition","Supplying documents to enable New Zealand citizens or residents to travel overseas"
"Supplying travel documents","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Issuing passports and emergency travel documents"
"Supporting community care","Used for","Committing under Mental Health Act"
"Supporting community care","Broad Term","Providing protective care for the vulnerable"
"Supporting community care","Definition","Organising care arrangements for children and adults at risk of harm"
"Supporting community care","Scope Note","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","Use","Intelligence gathering"
"Taxing","Use","Revenue gathering"
"Teaching","Used for","Coaching"
"Teaching","Used for","Delivering courses"
"Teaching","Used for","Instructing"
"Teaching","Used for","Mentoring"
"Teaching","Broad Term","Educating"
"Teaching","Definition","Delivering any kind of training or teaching, including formal and informal instruction"
"Teaching","Scope Note","EXAMPLES: Training students, training teachers, training principals in management, on-line participation in learning. Delivering youth training, skill enhancement programmes, English for migrants"
"Tendering","Use","Allocating resource"
"Tendering","Use","Centralised purchasing"
"Tendering","Use","Financial management (Internal)"
"Tendering","Use","Purchasing services for the public"
"Testing student skills","Use","Assessing student achievement"
"Training","Use","Educating"
"Treating medical conditions","Used for","Nursing"
"Treating medical conditions","Used for","Performing surgery"
"Treating medical conditions","Used for","Prescribing"
"Treating medical conditions","Used for","Providing clinical services"
"Treating medical conditions","Used for","Referring patients"
"Treating medical conditions","Used for","Rehabilitating"
"Treating medical conditions","Broad Term","Ensuring personal health"
"Treating medical conditions","Definition","Intervening to improve personal physical or mental function after disease or injury, or to treat biological conditions"
"Treating medical conditions","Scope Note","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","Use","Disposing of waste"
"Upholding the rules","Narrow Term","Enforcing legal sanctions and remedies"
"Upholding the rules","Narrow Term","Ensuring compliance"
"Upholding the rules","Narrow Term","Interpreting the law"
"Upholding the rules","Narrow Term","Monitoring compliance"
"Upholding the rules","Definition","Maintaining the framework under which society operates by promoting compliance with and enforcing the rules and providing a mechanism for disputes resolution"
"Vaccinating animals","Use","Immunising animals"
"Vaccinating people","Use","Immunising people"
"Warranting","Use","Registering"
"Writing bylaws","Use","Drafting delegated legislation"
"Writing legislation","Use","Drafting parliamentary legislation"
"Zoning","Use","Allocating resource"