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  • Crown Companies (CROCs) — registered companies wholly owned by the government including Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) — registered companies formed from the former Department Of Scientific And Industrial Research (DSIR)

  • Crown Agents — organisations that give effect to government policy such as the Accident Compensation Corporation which administers no fault workers compensation

  • Autonomous Crown Entities that have regard to government policy such as Te Papa the national museum

  • Independent Crown Entities such as the Commerce Commission that administer competition policy/antitrust

  • School Boards of Trustees.


Notable crown entities include the universities, colleges of education, polytechnics and wānanga.

Crown entities can be contrasted with other organisational forms: departments of state, State owned enterprises, offices of Parliament and Sui Generis organisations like the Reserve Bank .


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