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1 July 2024
(d)
Crown Entities Act 2004
school boards:
What are they?
These are boards that are bodies corporate
constituted under the Education and Training
Act 2020 (including distance schools)
(e)
Part 1 s 7A
Definition
A body that is a board constituted under
subpart 5 of Part 3 of the Education
and Training Act 2020 and includes a
board of a school designated as a dis‐
tance school by the Minister of Educa‐
tion under section 196 of that Act
tertiary education institutions:
What are they?
These are tertiary institutions (for example,
universities, Te Pūkenga—New Zealand
Institute of Skills and Technology, or
wānanga) that are bodies corporate estab‐
lished or continued under the Education and
Training Act 2020
Definition
An institution established or continued
under subparts 3 or 4 of Part 4
of the Education and Training Act
2020, excluding an institution that is a
wānanga that is not a Crown entity
(1A) Despite section 5(3) of the Companies Act 1993, a Crown entity subsidiary
must be a company incorporated under that Act.
(2)
The words in brackets in subsection (1) about the effect of the different types of
statutory entities are intended only as a guide.
Section 7(1)(c): amended, on 18 July 2013, by section 4(1) of the Crown Entities Amendment Act
2013 (2013 No 51).
Section 7(1)(d): replaced, on 1 August 2020, by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020
(2020 No 38).
Section 7(1)(e): replaced, on 1 August 2020, by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020
(2020 No 38).
Section 7(1)(e): amended, on 23 August 2023, by section 41 of the Education and Training Amend‐
ment Act 2023 (2023 No 45).
Section 7(1)(e): amended, on 25 September 2020, by clause 4(2) of the Education (Name Change for
NZIST) Order 2020 (LI 2020/260).
Section 7(1A): inserted, on 18 July 2013, by section 4(2) of the Crown Entities Amendment Act 2013
(2013 No 51).
7A
Meaning of multi-parent subsidiary
(1)
A company is a multi-parent subsidiary if, under sections 5 to 8 of the
Companies Act 1993,—
(2)
(a)
the company is not a subsidiary of any one Crown entity; but
(b)
if 2 or more Crown entities were treated as 1 entity (a combined entity),
with their rights, entitlements, and interests in relation to the company
taken together, the company would be a subsidiary of the combined
entity.
Despite section 5(3) of the Companies Act 1993, a multi-parent subsidiary
must be a company incorporated under that Act.
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