State Sector Act 1988
The State Sector Act 1988 defines what constitutes the State sector organisations in New Zealand. It substantially reshaped the shape of the Public service and to some extent its culture. It grants Ministers some role in the appointments of departmental chief executives.
The Public Service Association view is that, "By establishing the individual departmental chief executive as the employer, the Act set up one of the main mechanisms by which the old public service was broken up from the mid-1980s."
