Purpose and nature of Ministerial Body
11 Purpose and nature of Ministerial Body
The Ministerial Body is established to provide a body corporate through which the Minister, or a person to whom a function of the Minister is delegated under section 15(1), can perform any of the Minister’s functions under this Act that can more conveniently be performed by a body corporate than an individual.
Any acts or things done through the Ministerial Body as described in subsection (1) must be regarded as —
services under the control of the Department for the purposes of the Financial Management Act 2006 section 52; and
operations of the Department for the purposes of Part 5 of that Act.
Despite the employment under the PSM Act of ministerial officers for the purpose of assisting the Minister to perform functions that the Minister performs through the Ministerial Body, the Ministerial Body and those officers are not an organisation for the purposes of that Act.
[Section 11 amended: No. 1 of 2023 s. 8.]
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